Re: 2.4.0-test7-vmpatch2 very sluggish on Toshiba laptop

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 18:01:43 EDT

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    On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Goblin wrote:

    > I am running Mandrake 7.1, pretty much stock with all the updates. I
    > would like to know how I might go about determining why my system is
    > incredibly sluggish using new kernels. Stock Mandrake kernels run great.
    >
    > I guess I wanted to know if there was anyone else having the
    > same experience. Specifically, X is where I notice it the most.
    > Even Eterm takes forever to scroll a little. No disk activity.

    "No disk activity" indicates that it's probably not VM activity
    keeping you back...

    > All this is probably not enough info, so if anyone can help me at least
    > supply enough info to help solve my problem, I'd be in debt to them.

    If you run 'top' or 'vmstat', is there a big difference in output
    between what 2.2 and 2.4 tell you?

    regards,

    Rik

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