I'm a bit mystified about this whole "slowness" problem. You're running a 1.2gig cpu? I'm running several linux boxes (slackware and heavily modified redhat) on 200mhz and 266mhz cpus and really don't see much slowness. Certainly nothing with mouse or keyboard. And I like to keep about something like 12 to 20 windows open in gnome. I've had 800mhz boxes at work running linux, which, besides booting faster, seemed little at all faster than my 233 box at home. If you are seeing real sloth on your machine, I'd try a whole new installation. I know at one point I was trying some Mandrake issues, and found extreme variation in installs -- some very, very slow. But really -- come'on -- I've run web and email servers for fairly large institutions on 200mhz linux boxes, with no complaints from around 500 email account users -- and you're seeing sloth in a single user 1.2gig box? Good grief. I'd wipe it out and start over. Try slackware once, see how that runs, then try something a bit more exotic. On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:53:12PM +0100, Peter Kirk wrote: > Am Sonntag, 19. Januar 2003 14:59 schrieb Jari Ruusu: > > Peter Kirk wrote: > > > as it seems, the problem was/is not that simple. After having changed my > > > harddrives to use dma (yes i double checked them all) I still get the > > > lagging mouse etc. if i put some load on my system. E.g. if i compile > > > something in a terminal in kde, then my load goes up to 2.5 (is this > > > unusually high ?), and my mouse starts only getting updated 2 times/sec, > > > same is with keyboard input. With SuSE i never ever got a laggy mouse > > > (ok, maybe with load 10 or something). > > > > Have you tried using SuSE kernel with Gentoo userland? > > Sorry for that empty message =) > about Suse kernel + gentoo, I haven't tried that, because its not so easy. > Gentoo uses devfs, SuSE doesnt - I cant just change the suse kernel to use > devfs, then suse will not boot anymore etc. Im using the same config though, > that shouldnt make a difference. Gentoo kernel is 2.4.19, SuSE is 2.4.20, and > both have some performance patches on them (low latency for suse, gentoo has > low latency and some more). > > Is there anything specific I might have done wrong ? > > Thanks in advance > Peter > -- > "And what will you do when you grow up to be as big as me?" > asked the father of his little son. > "Diet." > > - > Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/ -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
