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drfindley

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Registered: 2003-10-30

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[SOLVED] New Machine really slow

I am running X64 version of arch.  The machine is running terribly slow, but most notably so when booting.  Udev Events takes 2 minutes, and that's when I have MOD_AUTOLOAD="no", and just the ethernet card loaded.

I have been searching and searching for a solution, but nothing makes sense. Ubuntu and Fedora both run on these machines fine.

I installed off the Voodoo beta2 install CD,and I am running 2.6.20.  This is a Core 2 Duo machine, HP dc7700.

These are my only clues (things that seem out of the ordinary):
"Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed"
" warning: many lost ticks."

output of hwdetect --show-modules-order (takes about 5 min or more to run):
MODULES ORDER: cdrom intel-agp lp ppdev rtc hid i2c-algo-bit i2c-core evdev ff-memless pcspkr psmouse serio_raw tsdev parport parport_pc pci_hotplug shpchp nvidiafb snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-codec snd-hda-intel soundcore ata_generic ata_piix e1000 usbhid usbcore ehci-hcd uhci-hcd sd_mod sr_mod

Here's my bootchart:
http://students.cs.byu.edu/~adam/bootchart.png

Several searches on google have turned up nothing. Any ideas anyone?

Last edited by drfindley (2007-03-27 13:58:41)

drfindley

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Re: [SOLVED] New Machine really slow

So I upgraded the bios, and it was like night and day.  I went from 2+ min boot times to ~10-15 sec boot times.  Pretty Crazy, eh?