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 1QPCyB-0004Cy-3T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 12:13:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 992631C19E; Wed, 25 May 2011 12:12:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61CED1C1A2 for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 12:12:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.localnet (p5B275224.dip.t-dialin.net [91.39.82.36]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0828B39A005 for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 14:12:10 +0200 (CEST) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pf-sources Kernel From: Alex Schuster Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 14:12:01 +0200 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 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105251412.06384.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5271ca73b2016d971a76f7ede0ef59bf James writes: > Anyone running pf-sources? > > AMD64? Yes! Since two hours after I read your posting, never heard before of pf- sources or BFS before. And they run great! My system was somewhat unresponsive, especially when things like emerges were going on, video playback was stuttering, sometimes Amarok did this, too. Now, it's no problem any more. Well, activating Strigi desktop indexing and Nepomuk still slows things down, though. > Your insights and experiences are most welcome, > including your opinion of BFS... It rocks! But then, I have been running ck-sources before. And they also have the BFS patch. And it has been set in my .config. So, I should already have seen the benefits all the time. Maybe this is all wishful thinking only? The system already performs much, much better since I added another 2G of RAM one week ago. Now I have 8G, and do not notice that much swapping any more. Although... right now, swap is at 600M, and the system is swapping right now. Weird. I'm running rdiff- backup, this seems to increase swap size. Maybe too much of the stuff it precesses is being cached? Swap is at 800M now. Wonko