I have SuSE 8.2 on my lappy. It used to fly(though for some unknow reason, it was slow on some boots into X).
However, real trouble started when a rebuilt the kernel - it now runs so slow, that some programs such as mozillia-mail time out and don't start at all.
Some output below, from which i can't see anything very fishy. But I am from an applications background, and so know nothing about hardware/embedded stuff.
I don't spose anyone will have the time nor inclination to read through all this, but I thought I'd try as I've no where else to look(pathetic I know - I've no shame).
My machine is a Pentium 4m,500 ram, 40gig hd, CD/DvD combo, SIS650, 1 gig swap with rest as a single EXT3
LSMOD
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 45888 0 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 13560 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
isa-pnp 29672 0 (unused)
st 27956 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sr_mod 12600 0 (autoclean)
sg 25852 0 (autoclean)
mousedev 4148 0 (unused)
joydev 5632 0 (unused)
evdev 4032 0 (unused)
input 3104 0 [mousedev joydev evdev]
usb-ohci 18760 0 (unused)
usbcore 57836 1 [usb-ohci]
raw1394 14516 0 (unused)
ohci1394 16180 0 (unused)
ieee1394 32880 0 [raw1394 ohci1394]
sis900 12588 1
snd-intel8x0 19204 0
snd-pcm 62912 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer 11904 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 31152 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mpu401-uart 3360 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 13824 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 4000 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 35940 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3396 0 [snd]
ide-scsi 9296 0
ide-cd 29404 0
cdrom 28192 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ext3 77288 1
jbd 45584 1 [ext3
DMESG:
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001dff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001dff0000 - 000000001dff8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001dff8000 - 000000001e000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffee0000 - 00000000fff0ffff (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Scanning bios EBDA for MXT signature
0MB HIGHMEM available.
479MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 122864
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 118768 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x000fb2e0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT SiS645XX 00000.00016) @ 0x1dff0000
ACPI: FADT (v002 AMIINT SiS645XX 00000.00017) @ 0x1dff0030
ACPI: DSDT (v001 SiS 650 00000.04096) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: BIOS passes blacklist
Building zonelist for node : 0
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x317 hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 splash=silent showopts
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdclun=0
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1196.445 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2385.51 BogoMIPS
Memory: 481972k/491456k available (1569k kernel code, 9096k reserved, 574k data, 160k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 2.00GHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030228
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 2)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
mxt_scan_bios: enter
Starting kswapd
bigpage subsystem: allocated 0 bigpages (=0MB).
kinoded started
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
aio_setup: num_physpages = 30716
aio_setup: sizeof(struct page) = 48
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xde816000, size 32768k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=4
vesafb: protected mode interface info at cbbf:000c
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture.... silenjpeg size 30311 bytes, found (1024x768, 23130 bytes, v3).
Got silent jpeg.
Got silent jpeg.
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 118x38
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 16 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.5
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SiS650 ATA 100 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda
MA, hdb
MA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc
MA, hdd
MA
hda: HITACHI_DK23EB-40, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03ac0c0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW-161, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78140160 sectors (40008 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4864/255/63, UDMA(33)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 440k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
Unmounting old root
Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 160k freed
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Adding Swap: 971892k swap-space (priority 42)
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: QSI Model: DVD/CDRW SBW-161 Rev: SU03
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
Got silent jpeg.
Got silent jpeg.
sis900.c: v1.08.06 9/24/2002
eth0: ICS LAN PHY transceiver found at address 1.
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xcc00, IRQ 5, 00:a0:cc:df:db:95.
ohci1394: $Rev: 758 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[dfff8800-dfff8fff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: SelfID completion called outside of bus reset!
ieee1394: Host added: Node[00:1023] GUID[00030d532431f1c9] [Linux OHCI-1394]
raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:24:43 Mar 17 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe08a1000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.3, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (#2)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe08a3000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
HDPARM:
dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 4864/255/63, sectors = 78140160, start = 0
GRUB
title SuSE Linux 8.2 (Kernel 2.4.20)
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20 root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x317 hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 splash=silent showopts
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd-2.4.20
MODULES:
# Revised by me October 19 2003
# Ethernet Card
alias eth0 sis900
# Misc
alias char-major-212 off
alias block-major-9 off
alias char-major-10-134 apm
alias fb1 off
alias fb2 off
# DRI SiS650 specific
options sisfb mem=12288 mode=none
# Sound - ALSA
alias char-major-116 snd
# Sound - Intel i810/OSS
options snd-intel8x0 snd_ac97_clock=0 snd_enable=1 snd_index=0
options snd snd_cards_limit=1 snd_major=116
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-slot-1 off
alias sound-service-1-0 off
alias sound-slot-2 off
alias sound-service-2-0 off
alias sound-slot-3 off
alias sound-service-3-0 off
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-11 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
ps aux |head -1; ps aux|sort +5nr|head:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
xuser 1580 3.6 7.1 53228 34728 ? S 10:47 0:30 /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin
xuser 1608 0.0 7.1 53228 34728 ? S 10:47 0:00 /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin
xuser 1609 0.0 7.1 53228 34728 ? S 10:47 0:00 /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin
xuser 1610 0.0 7.1 53228 34728 ? S 10:47 0:00 /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin
xuser 1611 0.0 7.1 53228 34728 ? S 10:47 0:00 /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin
xuser 1530 0.0 3.0 29988 14784 ? S 10:40 0:01 kdeinit: kdesktop
xuser 1548 0.0 3.0 30316 14540 ? S 10:40 0:00 kdeinit: konqueror --preload
xuser 1532 0.7 2.9 30572 14280 ? S 10:40 0:09 kdeinit: kicker
xuser 1667 0.7 2.9 30300 14064 ? R 10:55 0:02 kdeinit: konsole
xuser 1524 0.0 2.7 30532 13388 ? S 10:40 0:00 kdeinit: knotify
laptop:~ #
