Re: [gentoo-user] New laptop is slow.
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. Now that it's working how do you like the screen, size, etc? That's one of the laptops I've been considering. kashani Overall, it's great so far. I need to get the speakers to mute when I plug in headphones, but I think I know how to fix that and I'm going to start a thread about it. Check out the price here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834200026 The fan is audible when it kicks on, but it usually only comes on during an emerge. However, those things tend to get louder with age. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] New laptop is slow.
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 Slightly related, but you might want to check and make sure your HD isn't grinding itself to a quick death as is always the case when I'm setting up a laptop: http://en.opensuse.org/Disk_Power_Management I plan on upgrading to a 32GB SLC SSD as soon as the price drops under $200 for a good one. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] New laptop is slow.
G'day, Grant wrote: 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 Slightly related, but you might want to check and make sure your HD isn't grinding itself to a quick death as is always the case when I'm setting up a laptop: http://en.opensuse.org/Disk_Power_Management -- Beau Henderson
Re: [gentoo-user] New laptop is slow.
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: 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? When you're not using X does it still seem slow? You don't mention what kind of video or arch vs ~arch, but I would try different AccelMethod options in your xorg.conf. On my laptop everything in X was very slow until I set Option AccelMethod EXA
Re: [gentoo-user] New laptop is slow.
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? When you're not using X does it still seem slow? You don't mention what kind of video or arch vs ~arch, but I would try different AccelMethod options in your xorg.conf. On my laptop everything in X was very slow until I set Option AccelMethod EXA Thank you James and Paul. I read this: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/195836 and downgraded to xf86-video-intel-2.7.1 and all is well. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] New laptop is slow.
Grant wrote: 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. Now that it's working how do you like the screen, size, etc? That's one of the laptops I've been considering. kashani
[gentoo-user] New laptop is slow.
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
