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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GQqqF-0003yg-EH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:37:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8MJZnvb008307; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:35:49 GMT Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8MJZmg7029854 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:35:48 GMT Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id n1so648416nzf for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:35:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=PbB8iBR8BBDrNDxJl/dxYI84z+AMyKkbChaTAAJJS5tyiORF3l+KB+3H/Ed1twOLVR5hGLpOoo63oflPEDCedYucv9LlFUvDISA+TtBlishnonPK9MXM7La2+rYu2GE1CW6OVvT7wT+AtZdxHQXfO0dibzfVJJB9fvNah+7cM1g= Received: by 10.65.145.1 with SMTP id x1mr1098723qbn; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:35:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.156.16 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:35:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0609221235i2270bbenf016d5fa7a1998ec@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:35:47 -0700 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone? 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: d8635cce-bacf-49df-af1a-8f92512bcc71 X-Archives-Hash: d3cffa874f51a16e870489a637b5cf9c 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 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 > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list