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)
