is pathetic. The install took the better part of 3 days (normally this takes me ~2 hours). Installing the software itself took > 15 hours - something that normally takes ~1 hour. With 9.1, the load while idle was ~0. With 9.2, it's between 4 and 6. I installed Suse the same way I've done it for the last 4 years and nothing really special about how I install it (as usual, I choose the "no acpi" option, but that and using the same partition setup is about the only special things I do). Since I haven't heard anybody else complain about this yet, I assume that there's something special about my situation (can't say what, though). Is there some option I missed in the install (something like, don't insert a "while (1);" loop in the kernel :)? Or some way to find out what is sucking up the cpu time (top lists X as the only process getting any significant cpu time).
I think there may be something up with the install option for ACPI... Possibly due to an ACPI bug in the stock kernel (My own guess-- may end up being wrong... but here goes!) I installed 9.2 on a Celeron 3.66/192 mb Thinkpad. ACPI has never really worked on it on the past, so I tried using the Disable ACPI install option. It CRAWLED. I cancelled it, installing it with the normal install option (and then when I got far enough to set the GRUB options, I added acpi=off apm=on to the kernel boot options). Then I had to manually install the powersave package. The MAJOR problem I had with 9.2 is the stock kernel that comes with it has an ACPI bug in it that "effects some old Thinkpads" - After the final reboot, things got VERY unstable. I couldn't even run in INIT 3 without hard-locks. After I installed the updated kernel (laptop kicking and screaming the entire way!) it's working flawlessly now. (I had to boot off a rescue cd, mount my "real" filesystem, chroot to it, THEN install the kernel update.) All in all, it seems to run just as well as 9.1 did.