Sluggish System after Kernel Recompile

[jrbush82]

I have compiled the new 2.4.18 kernel and installed it on this system. The stock kernel that came with slackware 8 seems to have worked better than the one that I currently use. The main change, is the performance, the system starts to seem sluggish after being one a while, and lbreakout2 loses framerate very badly a lot of action come onto the screen. I have an AMD Chipset which I made sure was specified within the kernel, and modprobe my NVIDIA drivers during bootup. Any ideas what could maybe start causing a system to become sluggish, or even what I may need to make sure that is compiled into my kernel which I may be overlooking?

Thanks,
Jason Bush

[ScRapZ_1]

Dont know for a fact, but its always best to build stuff as modules (if it lets you) rather than compiling it into the kernel. That way, you load the module when you need it, and dont have it when you dont need it. Stuff like ntfs support, scsi, etc... that way the kernel stays nice and slim. Stuff like motherboard chipset support you can compile into the kernel ok, but for other stuff, modules are better. That way you dont have all this stuff bogging your system down.

Just a thought...

TTFN,
ScRapZ_1 :p