From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-159374-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A5C1387B1 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:00:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1616E09EB; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:00:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com (mail-wg0-f44.google.com [74.125.82.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7ED78E094C for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id y10so2708905wgg.15 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 09:00:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=P4voO4Vr8c40kZriXgBk8R9PZb/9VSAQztXcR4tRjeA=; b=sNToenXtcObljAJxmtQ//6GFmCpXsMBuZPFFfwwB/6JnFLMiXmDv4zGM0eZH95KcUQ XMA9EJQ8IiTmneOX+YmEIER0m2cmEO11F8X0X5lvu6QfxiN+/JzXckv7hG1sC5y+0S4A hQMzXDk7PH7MyD6494/MM41BC0BP1oi7lB8mlMiOORsO6ZntvrfC13NVewoFLnV86ZU5 wImba13v9PJyB2Cmi9+HFJB7MMEi2h44pQUACraFWODwegUaTQoJKgkDAQFwQTcel+U1 i4qDxxnGZOMyD+9nrurHhGKspmZ8GS51Ax0pryBP6xDKMU3LuxJg/lgnoY5+2kpZoyj0 K4Ng== X-Received: by 10.180.83.104 with SMTP id p8mr6868015wiy.74.1413648015157; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 09:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.178.21] (pD952D3A8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [217.82.211.168]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id o1sm5565018wja.25.2014.10.18.09.00.14 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 18 Oct 2014 09:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54428E8E.5080407@googlemail.com> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:00:14 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> 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] gigabyte mobo latency References: <loom.20141018T172004-713@post.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <loom.20141018T172004-713@post.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 78835dd8-bb78-4188-89e0-b5dadb6bf920 X-Archives-Hash: 2041fdffcb5833d966ba4b613bed1055 Am 18.10.2014 um 17:49 schrieb James: > Hello, > > > OK, so I run a minimalist DE (LXDE) and htop to monitor > system performance. The mobo has an fx8350 with 8 cores > (currently set at 4GHz (unclocked). The system rarily > uses over 8/32 gig of it's ram. So the resources are not > even close to exhausted. cpus mostly idle. > > I do keep (2) browsers up, with tabs aplenty, but they are not being used > very much. It's mostly a myriad of documents to read while I hack at code. > > Often the latency is minimal and the system response (as guaged) > from the keyboard is fine (quick). Other times the active terminal > session is a pig mostly in the web browser windows. > > So. Is there a make.conf setting or elsewhere to make the > terminal session response times, in the browsers (seamonkey, firefox) > faster? Something like a ram_disk just for the browsers? > > Note, after I finish up a project, many (browser) terminal sessions > are deleted and things are fine again. I'm just asking for a way > to ensure more ram/cpu resources are dedicated to the browsers > to boost performance, on a dynamic basis (without manual intervention). > > Maybe a ram_disk_cache (dynamic renice to-10 for the active window?) just > for the active browser window (the browser window I'm typing in? (background > code compilations are not concurrent with > the typing latency in the browser windows)..... > > ideas? > > > James > > > idea: have a look at the websites you visit. Some load&run megabytes of javascript which bogs down everything. Nothing you can do about that except turning of js.