Re: [gentoo-user] gigabyte mobo latency

[thegeezer <thegeezer@thegeezer.net>]

On 18/10/14 16:49, James wrote:
> 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
>
>
two things you might like to look into: 1. cgroups (including freezer)
to help isolate your browsers and also 2. look at atop instead of htop
as this includes disk io