Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Saturday 05 August 2006 11:11, yoshi watanabe wrote: > also, setting PORTAGE_NICENESS in make.conf to something like 3 or 5 > *really* helps. i also noticed that my pc becomes a bit sluggish during > certain compiles if i don't set it. (defaults to 0). more info on this > option in manual for nice command. Actually setting the nice value to 19 (the maximum value with lowest priority) puts portage into batch scheduling mode. This means that it gets longer timeslices (actually speeding up a bit) and at the same time does not influence the reaction speed of anything else. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net I compiled my kernel again with the correct sata drivers (libata, sata_via) as module. well i guess it "dma" thing again. does sata drives not support dma or what is wrong ?? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- flukebox@flukebox ~ $ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda (my whole hardisk) /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2592 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1295.31 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 seconds = 56.41 MB/sec flukebox@flukebox ~ $ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda13 (gentoo partition) /dev/sda13: Timing cached reads: 2620 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1309.80 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 92 MB in 3.05 seconds = 30.16 MB/sec ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ flukebox@flukebox ~ $ sudo hdparm -u1 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting unmaskirq to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- flukebox@flukebox ~ $ sudo hdparm -c1 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1 HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) flukebox@flukebox ~ $ sudo hdparm -c0 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 0 IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- still with no luck :(. Although PORTAGE_NICENESS help me a bit. I set PORTAGE_NICENESS="5" in my make.conf last time i attached 2 screenshot but mail returned to me back undelivered. ~jaiks --------------------------------- Here’s a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers