Hello Caoilte O'Connor (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Saturday 27 March 2004 02:36, Olle Eriksson wrote: >> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:25, Caoilte O'Connor wrote:
>>> I've been upgraded to the 2.6 kernel a little while >>> now, but I must not have things configured properly >>> because the performance I get is terrible. >>> >>> Whenever I'm doing something CPU intensive my mouse >>> becomes unresponsive, my mp3 player skips constantly >>> and the like. This didn't used to happen for me under >>> 2.4 so I'm wondering if it's possible i've done >>> something very wrong. >> >> I experienced the same thing when I switched from 2.4 to >> 2.6 and it drove me crazy until I remembered what it >> could be. It turned out DMA was not activated on the >> disks. Could that be it in your case? >> >> See with "hdparm /dev/hdxx". > > OH! That was it. Thankyou. I've a VIA chipset and somehow > the configuration option name had changed between 2.4 and > 2.6. I'm compiling support in again now. > > Thanks very much, I can't believe I mindblanked that being > it. For the archive: I had similar problems. In some situations (opening new programs, switching windows), xmms skipped, and in my case changing the nice value of XFree to 0 (using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common) solved the problem. See also the post-halloween document: <http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt> (section "Process scheduler improvements") best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
