Bug 529840

Summary: The whole system is terribly slow
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Steve <bugzilla>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: rawhideCC: dougsland, gansalmon, itamar, kernel-maint, vedran
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dmesg.old with normal boot
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dmesg with acpi=off
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dmesg without acpi=off none

Description Steve 2009-10-20 11:58:56 UTC 
Description of problem:

Since F12-Alpha (now Beta), the system is terribly slow. Booting needs about 30 minutes with a Pentium 4, 3Ghz, 2.5G RAM. And after login in, you cannot work with Gnome. I don't now if this have something to do with HD I/O?


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-firmware-2.6.31.1-56.fc12.noarch
kernel-PAE-2.6.31.1-56.fc12.i686

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot
2.Wait 15 minutes
3.Log-in
4.Wait 10-15 minutes
5.Try do do something
6.Wait...  

Actual results:
Everything is terribly slow.

Expected results:
System should work normally

Additional info:
I have no idea..
Comment 1 Steve 2009-10-21 10:27:30 UTC 
Setting acpi=off to the kernel parameter does workaround the problem and makes the whole system (with booting) much faster. Please inform me which information you need to fix that problem!
Comment 2 Chuck Ebbert 2009-10-21 22:16:14 UTC 
1. Boot the normal (slow) way
2. Then boot with acpi=off
3. Attach the files /var/log/dmesg.old and /var/log/dmesg (separate plain-text attachments) to the bug report.
Comment 3 Steve 2009-10-22 08:01:43 UTC 
Created attachment 365667 [details]
dmesg.old with normal boot
Comment 4 Steve 2009-10-22 08:02:56 UTC 
Created attachment 365668 [details]
dmesg with acpi=off
Comment 5 Steve 2009-10-24 21:34:53 UTC 
Created attachment 365987 [details]
dmesg without acpi=off

Seems to be fixed in kernel-PAE-2.6.31.1-56.fc12.i686, the system is booting fast and Gnome also works fine.
Comment 6 Vedran Miletić 2009-10-26 11:10:05 UTC 
Thanks for reporting back.
Comment 7 Steve 2009-11-30 07:47:32 UTC 
Please reopen this bug since kernel-PAE-2.6.32-0.56.rc8.git1.fc13.i686 also boots only with "acpi=off". I just upgraded from F12 to rawhide.