Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751266AbVI2K3Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:29:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751329AbVI2K3Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:29:24 -0400 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.198]:34020 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751266AbVI2K3X convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:29:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=quA3HSlyRA0JZXxTfueKp5pQ7hctE76v2RtId7Tour8A4MT9mt2WfCNv74F/LZDGTFANPcOfp+304g1U3UyzQ8UH8gPVaoVa7FbsdsHT8qmA4k4Xuzga1nQfQW+ktlUi4irFBa+hbalN9DkJhDiZl7ymB9Wa6BZeO5jKnPLnO/o= Message-ID: <58cb370e050929032935a87c72@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:29:20 +0200 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: david.ronis@mcgill.ca Subject: Re: problem with 2.6.13.[0-2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <17206.60255.403692.773279@montroll.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <17206.60255.403692.773279@montroll.lan> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1195 Lines: 24 On 9/25/05, David Ronis wrote: > > I recently tried upgrading from 2.6.12.6 to 2.6.13.[0-2] on an HP > pavilion zv5000 (a P4 with hyper-threading) running slackware-current. > The configuration and build went fine and the new kernel boots; > however, things run very very slowly. As far as I can tell, what is > slow are process involving any disk IO. For example, the part of the > boot where ldconfig is run seems to take 2-3 times as long as do > things like remaking the X font caches, loading programs etc. > > This vaguely reminds me of my initial experience with this laptop, > where I hadn't turned on CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATIIXP, although it is now > (see below). If I reboot with the old kernel, things run as before. According to this page http://web.purplefrog.com/~thoth/zv5000/ this laptop uses nForce3 chipset so you should turn on AMD/nForce IDE driver (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX). Does it help? Bartlomiej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/