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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cgroupd really do work!
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On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:41 PM, William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrot=
e:
> 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. =C2=A0Add 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!).
>
> Really, really, really neat!
> BillK

Very cool indeed.

Which kernel did you choose? ck-sources? Something else?

Cheers,
Mark