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* [gentoo-amd64] SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?
@ 2006-09-22 19:35 Mark Knecht
  2006-09-22 23:42 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Mark Knecht @ 2006-09-22 19:35 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-amd64

It turns out that for me the problem was the ati-drivers package.
Switching to the radeon driver today lowered the CPU usage back to the
9% range that I was used to:

mark@lightning ~ $ top

top - 12:35:05 up  4:07,  3 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.16
Tasks:  91 total,   1 running,  89 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 12.3% us,  2.7% sy,  0.0% ni, 85.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   1025944k total,   431836k used,   594108k free,    19672k buffers
Swap:  2008084k total,        0k used,  2008084k free,   167108k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
11115 mark      15   0  247m 100m  30m S  9.6 10.1  18:13.38 mythfrontend
10794 root      15   0  208m  34m  20m S  3.7  3.5   7:40.66 X
  912 root     -42  -5     0    0    0 S  0.7  0.0   0:50.06 IRQ 217

Cheers,
Mark

On 9/14/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    I'm just curious whether anyone besides me is noticing their
> machine feeling somewhat sluggish since doing the gcc-4.1 upgrade?
> Mine seems ot be using a lot of memory. Alt-tabbing between windows
> seems slow. Ethernet traffic in my browser is causing pretty
> noticeable interruptions in things like MythTV.
>
>    I noticed that the rtirq scripts were not setting one of my sound
> cards priorities correctly after the upgrade so I changed the config
> file and fixed that, but I don't think it should have changed at all.
>
>    The machine is still quite usable, but it doesn't feel as snappy as
> it did last week.
>
>    I made no changes in /etc/make.conf for the upgrade. Everything is
> pretty basic as far as I can tell:
>
> CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
> CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
> USE="dri radeon mmx mmxext sse sse2 3dnow 3dnowext gnome kde -esd
> -arts ladspa nptl nptlonly audiofile gimp gimpprint ppds usb alsa cdr
> dvd dvdr dvdread jack jack-tmpfs fluidsynth tcltk sndfile v4l v4l2
> mysql flac xscreensaver -samba i8x0 mythtv apache2 -lirc mjpeg xvid
> real cjk unicode vorbis ogg truetype java -eds"
> CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
> MAKEOPTS="-j2"
>
>    3GHz AMD64 with 1GB & NVidia chipset/SATA drives.
>
> Mark
>
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2006-09-22 19:35 [gentoo-amd64] SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone? Mark Knecht
2006-09-22 23:42 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2006-09-23  0:08   ` Mark Knecht
2006-09-23  8:28     ` Christoph Mende
2006-09-23  9:55     ` Greg Bur
2006-09-23 10:03       ` Mark Knecht
2006-09-23 10:16         ` Greg Bur
2006-09-23 10:49         ` Peter Humphrey
2006-09-23 17:40           ` Mark Knecht
2006-09-23 21:00       ` Duncan
2006-09-25 20:25     ` Sergio Polini
2006-09-25 20:55       ` Piotr Pruszczak
2006-10-08 18:44         ` Sergio Polini
2006-10-08 18:47           ` Peter Davoust
2006-09-26  1:09       ` Mark Knecht

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