On Friday 20 June 2003 21:05, Paul Benjamin wrote:
SuSE sent out via YOU a new kernel for SMP boxes (you gotta love when you PC freezes on YOU update but it was the kernel). It still has the same problem with OOo and heavy CPU users in background at nice 19. I am using SuSE kernel 2.4.20-64GB-SMP.
On Friday 20 June 2003 09:20 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
I am running a vanilla 2.4.21 kernel and these problems seem to have gone away. Whether the kernel upgrade from SuSE will fix the problems, I can't say.
I do feel that perhaps SuSE had added a patch to their kernel at 2.4.20 which caused these problems because I was running 2.4.20 on 8.0 and did not have the problems. In otherwords, I have never had any slowness with OO (or SO) while running a vanilla kernel.
New day, new kernel and no slowness with OO. I downloaded 2.4.21 kernel source from kernel.org and compiled new kernel from it. Seems to work well, some fine-tuning still needed though. I can now run seti at nice 1 and OO starts and runs as it used to do. Thanks!