A64 3000+ feels unresponsive and slow

Aelus · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 14

I've just completed an amd64 install alongside my previous athlonxp installation. The old 32 bit installation feels similar to my old install (athlon xp 2500+) so that is pretty normal I guess, but the main problem is my new installation.

When I'm in Xfree, running firefox, and switching tabs, music in xmms tends to skip, switching tasks also takes quite a bit longer than it does in the 32 bit install. One thing which does go extremely fast is compiling apps, did KDE in about 4 hours.

hdparm -d /dev/hda and hdb tell me they are enabled, http://www.pieter.dejaeghere.net/amd64config is my .config, I've got 512mb pc3200 memory, switching tabs with firefox 0.8 while playing mp3s on xmms 1.2.8-r4, on gnome 2.4.2 with xfree 4.3.0-r5

I'd appreciate it if anyone could give me ideas, because it's not very amusing to have to run in 32bit mode to get acceptable performance.

Aelus

brad_mssw · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Alachua, FL

well, you didn't really provide enough info.
What hardware?
What kernel (exactly)?

Also, make 100% sure you've got the latest bios installed.

-Brad House
AMD64 Project Lead
brad_mssw@gentoo.org

Aelus · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 14

Athlon64 3000+
Asus K8V deluxe (via chipset)
512mb PC3200
msi geforce4 ti4600, nvidia kernel 1.0.5332

kernel is gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.3-r2, and my xfree config file is at
http://www.pieter.dejaeghere.net/XF86Config.

Currently running the default bios, I'll look into updating that now.

Thank you for the help,

Aelus

thumper · Guru Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 552 Location: Venice FL

One thing to check is the share interupts option in the ide driver section of the kernel configuration, and be sure it is disabled.

George

Aelus · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 14

running in the latest bios now, doesn't seem to make a difference.

I've disabled the share irq setting, and i'll report back when i've tried it out.

One more question though, how should the bios plug and play OS mode be set?

edit: disabled the irq sharing and it made a huge difference, so thanks for the advice! still curious about that optimal bios setting though...

Aelus

thumper · Guru Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 552 Location: Venice FL

I left mine at plug-n-play and let her rip, no issues so far, I did have to disable legacy usb support.

George

logon · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:37 pm Post subject:

Last time i was running a 5xxxer series Nvidia driver i had simmilar problems. Don't know what version i was running and if that changed but maybe this info is usefull for you. GL