From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344AD1387B1 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:25:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56CB2E0ADC; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:25:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from uberouter3.guranga.net (unknown [81.19.48.176]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 20781E0AD6 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:25:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.115] (unknown [91.235.98.134]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by uberouter3.guranga.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 166D7415 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:25:24 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <5442DAC8.2030106@thegeezer.net> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:25:28 +0100 From: thegeezer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.8.0 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] gigabyte mobo latency References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1ccb8cc1-3381-415f-801d-c714e09fb922 X-Archives-Hash: 8e7c5287c02563361fc58f54d1255e2e 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