On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 13:09, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:36:13PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:47:01PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> > > >> Given this, I'd expect the machines to be fairly similar in speed. > > >> While I know that gentoo does optimize stuff, and it does result in > > >> performance gains, It shouldn't make that much difference. Things like > > >> GNOME and Nautilus start somewhere in the order of 10 to 15 times > > >> faster than on my machine at home. > > > > > > Have you made sure you're using DMA access on all your drives? > > > > First thing I did on install. Double checked the other night, just in case. > > 10 folds change for seemingly non-cpu-intensive/disk-intensive task > still suggests something about disk access issues. > > * Do you have the same issue if you change filesystem to other filesystem? > * Did you verify disk mode with "hdparm -I /dev/hda"? > * Even when I boot very slow live-CD based system, I only get a second > to see the menu. And human can only see 1/30 seconds. Aren't you > over stating?? You have a fast system. >
I dumped in XFCE4, and found things to go a lot faster, even loading the same applications. Anyway, on the speed front, I discovered that gconfd-2 is/was chewing through around 40 MB (!) of ram, and magicdev was taking up another 16 or so. This doesn't seem right. I tried creating a new user with the same theme as the machines at varsity, and it runs pretty well - it's not quite as fast, but given that it was running along side my own users session, and therefore digging into swap, it seemed quite fast enough. So - something in my config is apparently broken, but I'm not sure where to go from here. I've deleted all the extra junk out of my home directory, but it doesn't seem to make much difference. Edward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
