From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ir0v5-0003mB-TL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:43:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lAB0fSt1004047; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:41:28 GMT Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lAB0fR35004038 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:41:27 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ir0t6-0002f2-Dw for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:41:20 +0000 Received: from ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.12.179]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:41:20 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:41:20 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: compiling on dual-cores - only 50% usage per cpu Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:41:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200711101729.24489.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at> <20071110182200.396dd6a3.miknix@gmail.com> <200711102143.03343.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at> 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-12-179.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: a96feaf1-6021-4ac9-9519-209e24256ebd X-Archives-Hash: cf6bc4c57ca18c69492b564b91c225e1 Bernhard Auzinger posted 200711102143.03343.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at, excerpted below, on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:43:03 +0100: > Thank you for your explanations. It seems to make sense that the job > hops from one CPU to another, just too fast to be seen on the averaged > processor statistics. I think I'll take a look at schedutils. The > xfce-cpuload-plugin seems to be nice, but I'm kde-user :). KDE user here too. =8^) I use ksysguard in the panel, with 4 CPU monitors, one for each of my dual cores on each of my Opteron 290s. It's quite useful, as user/system/nice is broken out on each one, and I have portage set to nice 19, so I can monitor how much it's using vs. other things (a lot of X updating the screen with konsole, particularly with composite turned on, somewhat less with quadkonsole, which seems to be a bit more CPU efficient but with fewer bells and whistles, particularly per session when one is running more than one). The dual 290s have certainly met and passed my expectations, with things running much smoother when multitasking than the dual 242s I was running before. With 8 gig of memory to go with it and quad drives in md/ RAID-0/1/6, I've no reason at all to complain about performance or want more ATM. I'm a happy camper! =8^) The next upgrade is my eyes, Lasik, then back to the computer for dual flat-panels and a GPU upgrade as the prices on high resolution hopefully continue to fall. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list