Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> wrote:

/ So I thought I would try those same options on my r4000

/>/ laptop. they had no effect.... This AMD turion 64 4000+ />/ rating laptop is still running SLOWWW... />/ /proc/cpuinfo has the cpu Mhz running at 2393 / Yes, the 4000+ is 2.4GHz.

/ below is my dmesg output for the r4000. There is a line

/>/ talking about "Your time source seems to be instable or /some

/ driver is hogging interupts"

/ Ouch. Sounds like that's where your problem is. If you have fluttering bus arbitrators/controllers, then that absolutely kills performance.

/ powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x10 (1150 mV)

/>/ powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0xe (1200 mV) />/ powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV) />/ powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0x2 (1500 mV) />/ powernow-k8: cpu_init done, current fid 0x2, vid 0x10 / Yep, there are your modes. Again, your 4000+ is a 2.4GHz.

/ Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is

/>/ hogging interupts />/ rip __do_softirq+0x41/0xa2 / 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