Re: AMD64 on a W500 Thinkpad seems sluggish

2012-10-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 15:13, STeve Andre' wrote: I have one rather annoying problem however, which is that I'm running about 25+% slower than in i386 mode. A kernel compile used to take about 3:20 under i386 mode, and now takes about about 4:10 or so. There are also random freezes of a

AMD64 on a W500 Thinkpad seems sluggish

2012-10-01 Thread STeve Andre'
So, after dragging my feet for more than a year, I upgraded my W500 ThinkPad to amd64. Amd64 feels different in the 'absurd ACPI temp' problem--so far I have not encountered a reboot, and actually sysctl reports temperatures that are a few degrees cooler than on i386. I have one rather annoying