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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HFIb8-0004HY-QP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:22:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l18NLUMC012063; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 23:21:30 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out4.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.77]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l18NF2aI003894 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 23:15:03 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F93C3759BE for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 10:15:03 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1170931348.19393.1.camel@localhost> References: <6142e6140702061231x5a517c2fvf29f87efacb2f576@mail.gmail.com> <200702062216.45220.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> <45C8F2FE.9050902@googlemail.com> <1170931348.19393.1.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:44:58 +0930 Message-Id: <1170976498.14243.81.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l18NLUMQ012063 X-Archives-Salt: 8e65e705-5728-4830-a811-4c13d157c7b7 X-Archives-Hash: d3e35f80045148dc10c27f175b6d9c83 On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 11:42 +0100, Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric Grosshans wrote: > Did you try to play with ionice to assign priority. It has helped me a > lot with io-intensive background taskes. I am trying to compile it to overcome some heavy-disk access performance issues (ext3), but I can't! Not compatible with recent headers or something :( See my thread on "_syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20" if you can help!! thanks, --=20 Iain Buchanan Style may not be the answer, but at least it's a workable alternative. --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list