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 1SSIqv-0002aL-4x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 02:11:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23D9DE08DA; Thu, 10 May 2012 02:11:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f181.google.com (mail-ob0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5DE2E07D5 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 02:10:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbuo19 with SMTP id uo19so1312126obb.40 for ; Wed, 09 May 2012 19:10:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=9QYf9o3SRKXUdZ4JRRRCCDbfhWryjA7HZr26YYRXYvI=; b=T0/DJkla0LZTaPHWRPpLYEtdstYcdcpG7bzB0NqKde/jlQl0NBiZRstnELd4eDzqi/ U7owhoMl8HdJX5HCNLsLrpFlK26a0E5dwLJceJYYzOx7dGzrYbc5lfN7Qm59hDdNrIoO c4r/4V4kwUe7kWNpaG1xPXzMto/owuczpSwtI81DfKndDP+QNPllD0c3Ws8mktv25vUh 0mNqMDHp3hio5kcIOr1sMGTrqbOXJ1Zvn9l5QqCU95O21PvxxE0KKMlAecxIlex+RgUE fukWkn35eVDM7/57W2WRHJzP88aBF1w47L27wzh7BaHsYkwWC8x16WuuJaANQYcmVCLF HpgQ== Received: by 10.182.112.69 with SMTP id io5mr3536178obb.11.1336615801982; Wed, 09 May 2012 19:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-66-173.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.66.173]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o6sm3817365oec.11.2012.05.09.19.09.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 09 May 2012 19:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FAB2376.6060804@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 21:09:58 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120508 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs 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> <20120510030001.0158d406@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20120510030001.0158d406@weird.wonkology.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 063b9188-d3b4-43c1-8bc8-f4e62bd1365d X-Archives-Hash: 3176a8ffae451ec2c3ac6820066789f6 Alex Schuster wrote: > 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 > > Is there a way to find out what is using swap? Maybe something related to the video is on swap which at times can be slow, certainly slower than ram. I have always wondered how to find this out myself. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"