On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro 1320 laptop. It > has a 2.2Ghz Core Duo CPU, 3GB RAM, and a 7200RPM hard drive. > Navigating within firefox is pretty slow. It's the response time of > the application, not the network. It's much slower than my previous > laptop which has much weaker specs. > > I noticed the HD light comes on when the system is pausing in firefox > sometimes. I don't have any swap at all, I'm using the CFQ, and /tmp > is mounted on tmpfs. Can anyone suggest where to look?
When you're not using X does it still seem slow? You don't mention what kind of video or arch vs ~arch, but I would try different AccelMethod options in your xorg.conf. On my laptop everything in X was very slow until I set Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
