RE: *massive* slowdowns on 2.4.1-pre1[1|2]

Grover, Andrew
2001-01-30T02:07:58Z

If you have ACPI enabled, it is the culprit.

(I'm workin' on it! ;-)

Anyway, ACPI driver is marked "developmental and/or incomplete" and will not
be otherwise any time soon so it's broken-ness should IMO not hold up kernel
releases.

Regards -- Andy
(ACPI maintainer)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Riley [mailto:oscar@the-rileys.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 5:59 PM
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: *massive* slowdowns on 2.4.1-pre1[1|2]
>
>
> Sorry if this is a redundant post, but I didn't see any related posts
> (at least from the subject lines)...
>
> Kernel 2.4.1-pre11 and pre12 are both massively slower than
> 2.4.0 on the
> same machine, compiled with the same options. The machine is a Athlon
> 900 on a KT133 chipset. The slowdown is noticealbe in all areas...
> booting takes over five minutes, keyboard input is noticeably delayed,
> and the PC speaker makes much longer beeps when beeping the
> console. I
> just wanted to post this since 2.4.1 is soon for release (at least
> according to Linus' post on -pre11) and we wouldn't want to
> release this
> if it affects more than just me. I've tried a number of different
> options to make this work, but none have seemed to work. BTW, my
> problems are nothing similar to the current discussion of KT133
> misbehaviour, especially since this machine works perfectly on 2.4.0.
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