Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> 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 J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------- *** Speed doesn't kill, difference in speed does ***