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 1SSOMI-0005ek-5r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 08:04:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE6D1E09A2; Thu, 10 May 2012 08:03:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.hadt.biz (boss.hadt.biz [78.47.36.129]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE1DE06B4 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 08:02:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.255.100] (p5B342816.dip.t-dialin.net [91.52.40.22]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.hadt.biz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 33133BB41 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 10:02:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4FAB760F.1040602@hadt.biz> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:02:23 +0200 From: Michael Hampicke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1bf69959-e6ff-4399-888b-17a277b38b7e X-Archives-Hash: 0c3273cb82bd63abda14dfac9efa5a63 Am 10.05.2012 05:59, schrieb Adam Carter: >> 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. > > Yeah so it wont be swap related. This sounds more like the desktop > responsiveness issue discussed a while back. It might be worth > googling that (main issue was fixed in later kernels) > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2637_video&num=1 > > There's other things that may help, ie > CONFIG_HZ_1000=y > CONFIG_HZ=1000 > Does the CONFIG_HZ setting today really have that much of an impact? I mean with tickles kernels and high res timers it should matter that much, or am I wrong? Playing video is not really a low-latency-multimedia-app, on the other hand: you never really know :)