slow unless the CPU is in use

[Ivan Voras]

Keith Pitcher wrote:

> Things are pokey slow, hit a key and wait a second or more for it to
> appear on the screen. Long load time,takes forever to shut down all the
> processes, as a whole it's crawling. However if the system is doing
> almost anything, like compiling a port or recompiling the kernel,  or
> just downloading a file during a port, then things are what I'd consider
> a normal response. I recompiled the kernel and removed all the various
> debugging options, same symptoms.

Is your power management enabled? powerd? cpufreq driver? Is the CPU
overheating?

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