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<pre>Jerry Geis <<a
href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos">geisj at pagestation.com</a>> wrote:
><i> So I thought I would try those same options on my r4000
</i>><i> laptop. they had no effect.... This AMD turion 64 4000+
</i>><i> rating laptop is still running SLOWWW...
</i>><i> /proc/cpuinfo has the cpu Mhz running at 2393
</i>
Yes, the 4000+ is 2.4GHz.
><i> below is my dmesg output for the r4000. There is a line
</i>><i> talking about "Your time source seems to be instable or
</i>some
><i> driver is hogging interupts"
</i>
Ouch. Sounds like that's where your problem is. If you have
fluttering bus arbitrators/controllers, then that absolutely
kills performance.
><i> powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x10 (1150 mV)
</i>><i> powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0xe (1200 mV)
</i>><i> powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
</i>><i> powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0x2 (1500 mV)
</i>><i> powernow-k8: cpu_init done, current fid 0x2, vid 0x10
</i>
Yep, there are your modes. Again, your 4000+ is a 2.4GHz.
><i> Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is
</i>><i> hogging interupts
</i>><i> rip __do_softirq+0x41/0xa2
</i>
Hmmm, are you getting any ATA timeouts after the system is
booted?
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Bryan
There are no further entried in the dmesg output after booting
So it would not seem that there are any ATA timeouts...
Is there something else to check?
Jerry
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