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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:30:47 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1144296047.13375.53.camel@orpheus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604061457.03567.elinar@ihug.co.nz>

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 14:57 +1200, Glenn Enright wrote:
> On Thursday 06 April 2006 11:08, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > weeeelll, it's not exactly old - it's a 3.0GHz P4 laptop (Inspiron
> > 9100).  It could be a RAM issue - only 512 Mb.
> >
> > But I definately notice it when emerging sources, and then trying to
> > switch virtual workspaces when I have, say, firefox & evolution & vmware
> > running...  even if emerge is niced.
> >
> what are the specs on your HDD? surely seems like the key here. Like Richard 
> pointed out, as soon as IO systems become loaded they struggle to keep up 
> with demand. Laptops usually have 5400rpm HDD dont they?

Just put in a 7200rpm 8Mb cache 100Gb Seagate :)  It's faster in hdparm
tests than my 5400, but I still get a bit of 'slowdown' when emerging...

-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

What's all this brouhaha?

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-06  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-05  0:13 [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real Grant
2006-04-05  0:56 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-04-05  1:18   ` Roy Wright
2006-04-05  1:51     ` Iain Buchanan
2006-04-05 10:07       ` Frédéric Grosshans
2006-04-05 10:22         ` Frédéric Grosshans
2006-04-05 16:49           ` Grant
2006-04-07 18:09             ` Vladimir G. Ivanovic
2006-04-05  2:00   ` Glenn Enright
2006-04-05 23:08     ` Iain Buchanan
2006-04-05 23:22       ` Richard Fish
2006-04-06  2:57       ` Glenn Enright
2006-04-06  4:00         ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
2006-04-05  1:57 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin

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