Re: system sluggish with new distro

[Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>]

Peter Kirk wrote:
> as it seems, the problem was/is not that simple. After having changed my
> harddrives to use dma (yes i double checked them all) I still get the lagging
> mouse etc. if i put some load on my system. E.g. if i compile something in a
> terminal in kde, then my load goes up to 2.5 (is this unusually high ?), and
> my mouse starts only getting updated 2 times/sec, same is with keyboard
> input. With SuSE i never ever got a laggy mouse (ok, maybe with load 10 or
> something).

Have you tried using SuSE kernel with Gentoo userland?

Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>

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