[Gllug] Slow machine

[John Winters]

On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 17:15 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> Ever since I upgraded one of my boxes to Fedora Core 4 it has run slowly
> on certain things - primarily some audio and video stuff.
> 
> I can play MP3s etc at normal speed, but playing a simple piece of PCM
> audio results in output with audible gaps/jerks. Similarly video (eg
> MPEG) does not play properly.
> 
> Following an eralier query on this list I tuned off selinux and
> downgraded the video driver (which made some 3D graphic stuff faster)
> but the general problem - which wasn't there on FC3 - perists.

It's not an Athlon CPU by any chance is it?  I just solved a problem of
odd sluggishness - confined purely to the performance of my remote
control in MythTV.  It turned out that having athcool enabled was enough
to cause the problem, although it didn't seem to affect anything else.

John

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