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.