arctic Posted February 2, 2005 Report Share Posted February 2, 2005 (edited) hi there. :) here goes my problem after i couldn't find anything useful on the net. my lappy runs currently with fedora3. it has a 1,8 ghz processor, 30 gb hdd, 64 mb nvidia gfx (no 3d enabled), realteck eth0 and orinoco based wlan card, 256 mb ram. today, i did let it update after it somehow crashed terribly (it had never done that before) and needed several boots to rebuild the partition-structure. the /home folder is okay now. the /root was also checked intensively and showed no signs of malfunctioning. i thought that one package might have caused the disaster, so i ran up2date and installed a whopping 91 packages, including a newer kernel. so far, so good. after updating, i rebootet into the new kernel and EVERYTHING at the booting-phase took ages. i rebooted with the old kernel. same result. it takes roughly five minutes to boot into the system and every app i start is running slow now. my services need almost twice the amount of ram they needed before. i also thought that maybe initscripts or the cronjob might cause trouble (had read several such things on other forums) but i must say, i have no idea what i should tweak there if i should tweak them at all. this leaves me now with the slowest laptop in the universe... any ideas how to get the speed back before i wipe the /root partition and install gentoo or mandrake? :unsure: Edited February 2, 2005 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 Wow, that is a long boot :P check out bootchart, it might show you were a bottleneck is and might help chase the problem down. http://www.bootchart.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted February 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 thanks. i tested it and ... well.. udev needs a long time now, just like audio detection. and the cpu is somehow running at half-speed. it always reports that it can not set cpu-frequency because it cannot write to the relevant file in (i guess it was, but might need to look at it again) /usr/bin, bacuase it does not exist. i deactivated several services that got activated for no apparent reason and now it boots in roughly three minutes from start to gnome 2.8. well... a bit better but not especially great, either. what makes me really wonder is why the cpu-speed got throttled down to 50% of its original speed. :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 What kind of hardware do you have? Laptop/desktop & cpu: CPU info: cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'cpu MHz' What govenor is running: /sbin/lsmod | grep cpufreq What speed is it currently running at: cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted February 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 we discussed the matter in #musb and it seems that something is terribly wrong with one of the update packages i got. topic is thus UNRESOLVED, as we didn't find any solution other than reinstalling/installing different distro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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