Re: [gentoo-user] cgroupd really do work!

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 17:20 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:41 PM, William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > Re the discussion on cgroups on the 24/25 november - on my old AMD
> > barton 2500+ desktop - in the past a load of anything more than 5 made
> > it very painful to use.  Add in running windows in a qemu vm at the same
> > time (all in 1.5G ram) and its almost unusable as an interactive
> > desktop.
> >
> > Now, with Florians (thanks for the scripts) version of using it on
> > gentoo, even at a load in excess of 12, its almost as good as with no
> > load for desktop operations!
> >
> > To get the high load I am compiling a new kernel, running win2k in qemu,
> > emerging latest updates, browsing the web and reading email in
> > evolution, running updatedb and other cron jobs (just restarted after a
> > tuxonice hibernate so everything is triggering at once!).
> >
> > Really, really, really neat!
> > BillK
> 
> Very cool indeed.
> 
> Which kernel did you choose? ck-sources? Something else?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 

gentoo-sources 2.6.34, just finished compiling 2.6.36 (all manually
configured)

BillK


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