New Gentoo slow

vishrut · 12-25-2002, 08:39 PM

I just finished install gentoo on my amd 1700 xp
everything runs fine except that when i am doing something cpu consuming my whole desktop slows down...
I am useiing KDE.
I had mandrake 9 before and this never happened.
now even mp3 get choppy if I move a big file between hard drives
I am lost...
help..

crashmeister · 12-26-2002, 03:16 AM

What options did you use for the cflags and what kernel do you got in there?

vishrut · 12-26-2002, 08:52 AM

CHOST='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
CFLAGS='-march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe'
CXXFLAGS='-march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe'

I upgarded to 2.4.20 from 2.4.19
didnt make much difference

crashmeister · 12-26-2002, 09:00 AM

Looks good to me.All I can think of is trying the gentoo sources for the kernel or try to check with gtop or someting like that what is consuming that much of your CPU.Didn't have a problem like that with gentoo so far.
Do you use ext3? I heard something about a bug in the 2.4.20 kernel and ext3.Don't know much about it because I don't have a problem there.

vishrut · 12-26-2002, 09:22 AM

I am using ReiserFS
could it be something to do with that?
is there a way to convert to ext3?

crashmeister · 12-26-2002, 10:12 AM

No - don't worry about it.The bug was only about ext3.