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

[Grover, Andrew]

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:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 5:59 PM
> To: [e-mail]
> 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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