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* [gentoo-user] Re: cgroupd really do work!
  @ 2010-12-04 19:52 99% ` walt
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From: walt @ 2010-12-04 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw
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On 12/03/2010 04:41 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Re the discussion on cgroups on the 24/25 november - on my old AMD
> barton 2500+ desktop - in the past a load of anything more than 5 made
> it very painful to use.  Add in running windows in a qemu vm at the same
> time (all in 1.5G ram) and its almost unusable as an interactive
> desktop.
>
> Now, with Florians (thanks for the scripts) version of using it on
> gentoo, even at a load in excess of 12, its almost as good as with no
> load for desktop operations!
>
> To get the high load I am compiling a new kernel, running win2k in qemu,
> emerging latest updates, browsing the web and reading email in
> evolution, running updatedb and other cron jobs (just restarted after a
> tuxonice hibernate so everything is triggering at once!).

I would expect some disk swapping activity when running all those apps in
1.5GB of RAM.  Are you seeing any?




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