Hi all.

I have noticed a drop in performance on my pc when it is under load conditions, (i.e using transcode to convert media etc..) after doing an upgrade on my system.

I have an AMD ATHLON XP+ RUNNING AT 2.13 GHZ

1.2 GHz of ram running.

geforce4 ti 4200 graphics card.

Changes:

:went from slackware 10.0 -2.4.246 to slack 10.2 - 2.6.13.

:Running kde now instead of GNOME.

:enabled HIGHMEM support into my kernel because the system was only using 720 MHz or so of memmory.

:added wifi card and configured system as an access point.
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Under normal conditions it works ok.

i can surf /download/ watch films compile programs etc etc withought a blib.

but b4 I could do all that and probably have couple of instances of transcode running in the background aswell and it would run fine.
Now if i am using transcode everthing else is chronically slow.
even opening a terminal window might take 3 or so minutues???!

How did you customized the kernel ? Enabled highmem support only ?
Don't start any graphical envirnoment, run transcode and on another screen/terminal check resource usage with top, f.E.
Size of memory is indicated in Bytes not Hertzes

transcode typically uses 99.9% of resources when it is run.

this was typical b4 the upgrade.?!!


yes I enabled high mem support.

ie i checcked the box that said 4GB

as opposed to 64GB or off.


re hertz

too much electronics :0)

Try disabling himem and see if the problem goes away.

yeah.. for some reason I seem to remember reading that enabling highmem can actually de-grade performance.?!??


I will give it a $bash.

Well I have 2 gigs of ram, and with out HIGHMEM, you can only use a little over 800megs of ram. So if you have under a gig disable it.

no same.

i have over a gig,just

1.2 GB.

Its got to be KDE ???

KDE seems alot more flashy than my previos gnome install from 10.0

this must eat up more resources ,no ?

I don't notice a difference between DLG and kde 3.4.2 But i did enable preloading and disabled a bunch of kde's daemons. Could it be the kernel? Because I noticed that 2.6.14 seems to manage my ram better than 2.6.12.5

it could be..

I may try 2.6.14.

I loaded gnome by the way.


no joy just the same under that environment.

yup.

i think i will try another kernel.

could you kindly advise how i can control which of kde's daemons run at start up.
And scuse my ignorance,but what is preloading?

thnks in advance.

new kernel has fixed this,,but now alsa will not re-compile.....

but thats for another thread.

u plug one hole,then u spring a leak else where ;0)