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 1SSHlg-00042E-CN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 01:02:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DF24E078A; Thu, 10 May 2012 01:01:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A88B4E075E for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 01:00:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-78-35-159-142.netcologne.de [78.35.159.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4BB09DC041 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 03:00:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 03:00:01 +0200 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs Message-ID: <20120510030001.0158d406@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20120509213833.5e9911ba@digimed.co.uk> References: <20120216162948.7eea6070@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218180407.74055f5e@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218220521.1278e023@bluewin.ch> <1705219.vsiCQe2Sr8@weird> <20120507144134.4ea24fc3@weird.wonkology.org> <20120507231123.49125d30@weird.wonkology.org> <20120509214419.34d6bbe4@weird.wonkology.org> <20120509213833.5e9911ba@digimed.co.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 77ed7cce-41b4-42f7-af4b-ff1490aee1a7 X-Archives-Hash: f7f5ef99954caeaad4e0c219cd24117e Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 9 May 2012 21:44:19 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > I guess I could remove anything running on my KDE desktop one by one, > > including plasmoids, and see if playback gets better. But not now, I > > finally have to actually do some work. > > I recently experienced slowdowns and delays with KDE. It turned out I > had inadvertently disabled swap (I'd rearranged my partitions and not > updated fstab). As soon as I gave it some swap space the delays > disappeared. There's plenty of swap space available. With 16 G of RAM it should not be needed, but sometimes my load gets really really high, and when I can use the system again, there is 2-3 G of swap usage. I haven't found out yet what this is, it seems to happen when emerging things, maybe related to having 5 G tmpfs for portage, but when it happened the last time only 100 M were being used. Wonko