[PlanetCCRMA] slowing down?

[Alex Timmer]

 --- Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10,
2004 at 03:04:48AM -0800, Oded Ben-Tal wrote:
> > I'm experienceing a curious slowing down occasionally. I think it
> happenes 
> > when I have problems with the ethernet connection (ADSL at home;
> not very 
> > reliable) but I'm not entirely sure. My machine slows down to an 
> > unworkable crawl - it sometimes take is over 15 min. to boot, I
> have to 
> > wait 1-2 minutes to launch a terminal etc. 
> > Any ideas how to track the problem? 
> > Oh - I'm running RH9, planet-ccrma kernel
> 2-23-something-or-another.
> 
> I had some similar symptoms when using ACPI or APIC (I forget which),
> try
> adding "acpi=off noapic" to the kernel line in grub.conf.
> 
> - Steve


does anyone know where these kind of kernel options are documented? so
far i tried these: pci=biosirq, pci=noacpi.

i could not find anything usefull with Google.
gr, ALEX

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