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? --------------- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051220/3e3b7ae7/attachment-0004.html>