Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to >> my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a >> kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28, with a number of >> reconfigurations, including moving from madwifi to in-kernel ath5k. >> Also updated nvidia-drivers to go along with the new system. >> >> Now my system is extremely sluggish. It updates the screen very slowly >> in X and CPU performance is noticably slower without X running too. >> WiFi speed is dismal. >> >> I tried to remove all cruft and extras from the kernel, but I haven't >> managed to improve matters yet. Since it now takes hours to update the >> system, I was hoping someone might have and idea as to what the cause >> of the slowdown might be. >> >> Sound Familiar? Any guesses? >> > > group scheduling? get rid of it. > > > >
I have been using 2.6.23 kernel for a while for the same reason. I'm going to check my config now. Dale :-) :-)
