I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro 1320 laptop. It has a 2.2Ghz Core Duo CPU, 3GB RAM, and a 7200RPM hard drive. Navigating within firefox is pretty slow. It's the response time of the application, not the network. It's much slower than my previous laptop which has much weaker specs.
I noticed the HD light comes on when the system is pausing in firefox sometimes. I don't have any swap at all, I'm using the CFQ, and /tmp is mounted on tmpfs. Can anyone suggest where to look? - Grant
