From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1POiQv-0002jB-Lq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:05:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 437ADE08EF for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 03:05:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.148]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4255FE0CD5 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 02:16:37 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqEFAC8z+Uw6B/yc/2dsb2JhbACVEo4VccJkhUgEhFyJIRo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,296,1288540800"; d="scan'208";a="661280770" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([58.7.252.156]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 04 Dec 2010 10:16:36 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D7D41E581FD for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 10:16:36 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Iiw48ea-Wjja for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 10:16:31 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.44.2] (rattus [192.168.44.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE4D1E51FBA for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 10:16:31 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cgroupd really do work! From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <1291423310.13545.8.camel@rattus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Organization: Home in Perth! Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:16:30 +0800 Message-ID: <1291428990.13545.17.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6b42c462-a3f9-447f-a7e6-dc4466a44b23 X-Archives-Hash: 8e7eb7ef73c5cbffc993c410da488e1c On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 17:20 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:41 PM, William Kenworthy 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 -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!