From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271363AbTGWWtp (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:49:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271369AbTGWWtp (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:49:45 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:44808 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271363AbTGWWtQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:49:16 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: [2.6.0-test1] ACPI slowdown Date: 23 Jul 2003 22:56:51 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <878yqpptez.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1059001011 22357 192.168.12.62 (23 Jul 2003 22:56:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <878yqpptez.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer wrote: | If I enable ACPI on my box (Athlon XP at 1.6 GHz, Epox EP-8KHa+ | mainboard), it becomes very slow (so slow that it's unusable). | | Is this a known issue? Maybe the thermal limits are misconfigured, | and the CPU clock is throttled unnecessarily (if something like this | is supported at all). There have been reports before, check the archives. I seem to remember that the solution involved changing some unobvious kernel feature, but others have had similar problems. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.