On 22.05.2009, Cody Nelson wrote:
Web surfing brings the system to a crawl! I see Xorg and firefox (or opera) seam to be eating the cpu time.
This is often related to Flash. Did you check this out? Do you have Beagle installed?
I can't even scroll up down, but the whole system is suffering under this light load.
Could you provide some numbers (vstat, sysstat, top...)? There are a few things which comes to my mind: preempt kernel, filesystem tweaking (noatime, data=writeback, nobarrier etc.), vm tweaking via sysctl.conf, faster harddisks. more memory... In my workingplace, I'm using an old P4 1.8 GHz with 512MB RAM and a 5400rpm harddisk, together with Gnome 2.26 on opensuse 11.0 without any problems. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org