Evening,
Recently i discovered that my machine (a dual p3 450MHz with 256mb of ram) is
very slow. top says that somewhat like 30% of cpu cycles are being used by
the system level. i suspect that it might be the SMP support which is
compiled into the kernel, mainly because when compiled with no SMP it runs
just about fine, and also some other people whined about it, but i couldnt
figure out any sullotion for it.
Except for a thread from a couple of years ago which blamed the ethernet
driver, i couldnt find anything - and also when the ethernet driver is
unloaded it still appears (ne2kpci driver).
I'm using kernel version 2.4.22 (stable, as for today). If anyone here has
any idea of anything i could try (hey, i'm not the first one to use SMP in
linux! ) i'd love to hear about it.
If no one has anything to say, i'll probably profile the kernel, and submit a
bug report.. (in the latest changlogs i couldnt find anything related to that
problem).
Cheers.
--
Dan Fruehauf.
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