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Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Slow Arch64

Hello, I just made a switch from the normal arch i686 distribution to arch64, I experience every thing to go slower, but my cpu is less idle, what it is the problem?

My current computer specificasions:

AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+
1 gb ram

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ganja_guru

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Registered: 2005-02-14

Posts: 464

Re: Slow Arch64

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0)

Make sure you have the lines related to loopback (lo) in your /etc/rc.conf

If this isn't it, please be more elaborate and explain what exactly is slow when compared to arch32.

Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

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Re: Slow Arch64

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
ath0="dhcp"
wlan_ath0="ath0 essid internett key a62504c418"
WLAN_INTERFACES=(ath0)
INTERFACES=(lo !eth0 ath0)

Well I'm noticing it in every way, even slower web browsing, longer bootup time etc....

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ganja_guru

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Registered: 2005-02-14

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Re: Slow Arch64

Post the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo and free -m. Also run 'top' and see if anything is eating your CPU power. Is your swapspace active? What DE are you using? Is it the same with an alternate DE/WM?

Stalwart

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From: Latvia, Riga

Registered: 2005-10-18

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Re: Slow Arch64

Check your hardware, maybe you forgot to setup something properly like DMA or graphics card driver

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OssiR

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From: Finland

Registered: 2006-12-28

Posts: 39

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Re: Slow Arch64

I'm having this same problem in Gnome. Everything works fine, but example when i open my home folder it takes like 10 seconds to appear after i click it. Same thing with every other program starts ups.

I have AMD3500+ AM2 with 1Gb RAM
and Nvidia 7600 256 as a graphics card.

Last edited by OssiR (2007-07-11 20:28:30)

AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: Slow Arch64

anything in your logs? DMA disabled? IRQ/APIC issues?

OssiR

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From: Finland

Registered: 2006-12-28

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Re: Slow Arch64

cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 79
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2200.000
cache size      : 512 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow up pni cx16 lahf_lm svm extapic cr8_legacy
bogomips        : 4403.51
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc

free -m

total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1003        698        305          0         15        453
-/+ buffers/cache:        230        773
Swap:          517          0        517

cpu usage looks pretty fine... example when i opened my home folder first time, cpu-usage was something like 0.3%, but it still took like 10 seconds to open.

And this happend when i tryed to set DMA on

/dev/sda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads:  112 MB in  3.04 seconds =  36.84 MB/sec

Last edited by OssiR (2007-07-11 23:03:34)