Eben King wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
>> blee2@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
>>> Thus Paul M Foster hast written on Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:49:12PM
>>> -0500, and, according to prophecy, it shall come to pass that:
>>> <snip><snip><snip>
>>>> I'm losing up to 10 minutes per hour on this box. And that certainly
>>>> doesn't make sense.
>>>
>>> Any chance you have a different processor you could put in, or a
>>> different case you could move the drive to, just to see if performance
>>> improves?
>>
>> Oh, I *know* there's something wrong with the machine. Screen savers
>> move in jumps, performance on everything is way slower than this
>> CPU/memory combination should warrant.
>>
>> No, there's no one process sucking CPU. I checked long ago on this.
>
> I'm thinking an OS-level driver has gone crazy, busy-waiting or whatnot.
> Have you tried booting another kernel (from a rescue disk or whatever)?
> Do you normally run one of the vendor-supplied "kitchen sink" kernels,
> or is it one you compiled with just the drivers you need, and most of
> those modularized? Can you try "rmmod"ing things and see when it stops?
>
Stock kernel in the 2.6.18 area, as I recall. You actually think it's a
driver? I was thinking hardware. There is one particular oddity-- my
wife uses a tablet instead of a mouse, and the driver being used is the
stock one for X (and probably old, since they don't ship tablet drivers
with X anymore). I hate that thing, because every time I upgrade the OS,
I have to compensate for that particular driver (either recompile it or
something similar). It doesn't appear in top, but I'm not sure it would
as a driver. My only concern about killing drivers is that sooner or
later I'm going to hit something that's going to whack the snot out of
the O/S, and then its speed won't be an issue, because the O/S won't
perform without it.
The other thing I'll say about the tablet is that on a prior computer,
which was *not* slow, she also ran that tablet. (Different driver,
probably, though.)
Paul
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