As you can see in my first post i did specify CPU, RAM and kernel version.
To answer your question, yes, i am using DMA.
By bad performance i mean that when i start Thunderbird it takes about 10 sec to open it and meanwhile everything gets slow, if I move the mouse around i can see it's moving slowly.
When i run emerge the same thing happens during the whole emerge process(except for when downloading).
I also installed aMule and while it's running the same thing happens, everything works slower. I thought that aMule might be buggy but a friend of mine is using the same version with a box which is almost as mine and it's running smoothly for him.
Another thing is when i run #emerge -s <something> it takes time before it even starts searching, but the second time i run it's going really fast.
Here is my make.conf: (a friend suggested i might have bad flags in there)
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# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="-gtk -gnome -ipv6 gstreamer qt kde aac acl alsa oss avi cdr divx4linux doc dvd dvdread examples icq javascript msn opengl samba unicode usb vcd videos xvid nvidia ldap"
ALSA_CARDS="via82xx"
LINGUAS="he"
Here is the emerge info:
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Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.3 [disabled]
dev-lang/python: 2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="he"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aac acl alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux doc dvd dvdread eds emboss encode examples fam foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 icq imagemagick imlib javascript jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd videos vorbis xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_he userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Hope this is enough...
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me to a guide, just not "Flying with Gentoo" - been there) on things to check that i might have configured wrong?
whoops, sorry I overlooked that! Anyways, you might want to give the ck kernel a shot, it's aimed at desktop responsiveness.
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