Re: Mandriva 2010 SLOW

On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 10:29 +0000, Rodney wrote:
> I have installed 2010 free on my Dell Latitude 610 - 1GB RAM - and it is 
> amazingly slow.  The CPU shows 100% load whenever I do anything and 
> scrolling a pdf is almost impossible because the delay is so confusing. 
>   It will no longer run Virtual Box so I have lost the easy Windows option.
> 
> I have stopped all the extras I can find (fancy cursors etc) but no 
> noticeable improvement.
> 
> On 2008.1 Powerpack it was fast and handy and not even too slow running 
> Win2k under Virtual Box, so 2010 is a disaster.
> 
> Could the difference possibly be caused by using Free rather than 
> Powerpack? (I could pay, though work no longer justifies this, but don't 
> want to waste cash as well as time.)
> 
> Can anyone offer an alternative to reinstalling 2008?
> 
> Rodney
Do you have pulseaudio running? I've found, at least on my 2010 box. I
also had an issue with it on 2009 but it went away with 2009.1. I keep
seeing a lot of:

Jan 20 18:24:51 localhost pulseaudio[5211]: ratelimit.c: 15 events
suppressed
Jan 20 18:24:51 localhost pulseaudio[5211]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing
locally
Jan 20 18:25:06 localhost pulseaudio[5211]: ratelimit.c: 464 events
suppressed
Jan 20 18:25:06 localhost pulseaudio[5211]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing
locally

an 20 09:20:06 localhost pulseaudio[5211]: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up
to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to
write!
Jan 20 09:20:06 localhost pulseaudio[5211]: alsa-sink.c: Most likely
this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_ens1371'. Please report this issue
to the ALSA developers.
Jan 20 09:20:06 localhost pulseaudio[5211]: alsa-sink.c: We were woken
up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0
or another value < min_avail.

Though this may not be your problem I've found that disabling pulseaudio
in MCC and killing the pulseaudio process takes care of my slowdowns and
high cpu usage, of course it kills my sound also.


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