From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwPt4-0006HB-R8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:42:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6NJeKop002652; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:40:20 GMT Received: from mta13.adelphia.net (mta13.mail.adelphia.net [68.168.78.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6NJeI4l015667 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:40:19 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.221] (really [68.170.102.241]) by mta13.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.01 201-2131-118-101-20041129) with ESMTP id <20050723194059.XBMY14360.mta13.adelphia.net@[192.168.1.221]> for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:40:59 -0400 Message-ID: <42E29D69.8000709@adelphia.net> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:41:29 +0000 From: Mark Creamer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] controlling processor peaks References: <42E28E17.3060300@adelphia.net> <1122146573.16577.12.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1122146573.16577.12.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2c5f4bf2-10dd-40e8-a2e5-defa94a55b59 X-Archives-Hash: d088da00176a140e2a9c664bc395d217 Here's the output: /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 30515/255/63, sectors = 251000193024, start = 0 Allan Wang wrote: >On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 18:36 +0000, Mark Creamer wrote: > > >>I have a fresh install of 2005.0. PC specs are AMD Athlon 64 3200, 2 GB >>RAM. I'm noticing that certain applications will monopolize the CPU for >>a moment and then drop off. But during that time, mouse is hung, and >>nothing else will work or will work sporadically. >> >>An example would be opening PAN newsgroup reader, and selecting a group >>that has a large number of messages. Until all the message headers are >>loaded into the reader, even if that's only a few seconds, I can't do >>anything. >> >>How can I tune Gentoo so the processor doesn't peak for one app like this? >> >>Thanks! >>Mark >> >> > >Hmm, I've seen this problem with machines that don't have DMA on, if >you're using IDE hard drives, what's the output of hdparm /dev/hda or >whatever the drive is? > >Allan > > > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list