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 1HErL7-0007tn-1Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:16:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l17IEMEV000482; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:14:22 GMT Received: from psmtp02.wxs.nl (psmtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.247.11]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l17I9RcV026710 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:09:28 GMT Received: from graskamp (ip51cfa1ef.direct-adsl.nl [81.207.161.239]) by psmtp02.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.15 (built Nov 14 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JD30073SUF89Y@psmtp02.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:09:08 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:08:55 +0100 From: Benno Schulenberg Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking In-reply-to: <45C9F7A1.10806@comcast.net> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200702071908.55632.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> 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 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <7LFgI-6qK-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <7LUIK-4Qn-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <45C9F7A1.10806@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: 29655066-fd3a-4502-847d-535f3d26f200 X-Archives-Hash: 688a3e545f2bd63ada40e329bee18863 Mike wrote: > Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > No other suggestions? > > The hdparm optimizations, the CFQ scheduler and maybe low latency > desktop in the kernel are the best way to make your desktop > useable under heavy disk usage. And check you have HZ set to 1000. $ grep HZ /usr/src/linux/.config # CONFIG_HZ_100 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_250 is not set CONFIG_HZ_1000=y CONFIG_HZ=1000 Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list