Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: 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 On my laptop it is noticeably sluggish when using SLUB instead of SLAB (despite SLUB being the default, I find it to be worse every time I've tried it so far)
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: 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 On my laptop it is noticeably sluggish when using SLUB instead of SLAB (despite SLUB being the default, I find it to be worse every time I've tried it so far) Is there a howto for this sort of thing? From what I read here and other places, some laptops are really confusing but there are even desktops that have issues with some new features. How does one get a idea of what they should try? I remember a list ages ago when I first installed Gentoo that has a list of CPUs andsome of the options a person could put in make.conf. I think we need one of those, maybe on a wiki or something, that lists models and what setting really work. I think laptops would really benefit from this. I have never had a laptop but they seem to be tricky to be nice about it. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: 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 On my laptop it is noticeably sluggish when using SLUB instead of SLAB (despite SLUB being the default, I find it to be worse every time I've tried it so far) Is there a howto for this sort of thing? From what I read here and other places, some laptops are really confusing but there are even desktops that have issues with some new features. How does one get a idea of what they should try? I remember a list ages ago when I first installed Gentoo that has a list of CPUs andsome of the options a person could put in make.conf. I think we need one of those, maybe on a wiki or something, that lists models and what setting really work. I think laptops would really benefit from this. I have never had a laptop but they seem to be tricky to be nice about it. I think, other than power-saving stuff, there shouldn't really be any big difference between desktop and laptop settings... http://linuxonlaptops.com has lots of info about specific configurations for various laptops.
[gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII
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?
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII
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.
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:47:57 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com 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. Good thought! I didn't have it on though. Not particularly useful on a laptop. I fixed it though; it ended up being the BIOS. An upgrade from 8 to 15 and it's like a new computer. Yay! Thanks for the response.
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII
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 :-) :-)
