In article <20071004154314.GB21817@run.galis.org>,
George Georgalis  <george@galis.org> wrote:
>I've got an odd problem, a 2.2Ghz amd64 is compiling etc about 1/4
>the speed I'd have expected. eg autoconf tests are taking between
>1 and 2 seconds each. all compile processes are pretty slow.
>
>The dmesg is below, there are a lot of not configured lines,
>is one of them causing the slowdown?  Is there something I can
>disable in bios? (BTW this is a Sun X2100)
>
>// George

run 'systat vm' and see if any of the interrupt numbers is growing
too fast.

christos