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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cgroupd really do work!
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 13:00:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=XCj3aeFYKx+DfCWiX6Pa6U4t9-9B8eB7ogtC6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291428990.13545.17.camel@rattus>

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:16 PM, William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 17:20 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:41 PM, William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> 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!).
>> >
>> > Really, really, really neat!
>> > BillK
>>
>> Very cool indeed.
>>
>> Which kernel did you choose? ck-sources? Something else?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>>
>
> gentoo-sources 2.6.34, just finished compiling 2.6.36 (all manually
> configured)
>
> BillK

If you're up for it maybe try putting doing a Gentoo Wiki page.

Sounds like it's working pretty well. I'd like to try it but I don't
have much time to focus on digging out the info.

Congrats!
-Mark



  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-04 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-04  0:41 [gentoo-user] cgroupd really do work! William Kenworthy
2010-12-04  1:20 ` Mark Knecht
2010-12-04  2:16   ` William Kenworthy
2010-12-04 21:00     ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2010-12-05 14:55       ` Florian Philipp
2010-12-05 15:35         ` Mark Knecht
2010-12-05 16:02         ` Florian Philipp
2010-12-05 23:54           ` Bill Longman
2010-12-06  4:51             ` Florian Philipp
2010-12-06 20:04           ` [gentoo-user] " Doug Hunley
2010-12-06 20:44             ` Doug Hunley
2010-12-06 22:00             ` Florian Philipp
2010-12-07  5:51         ` [gentoo-user] " Scott Prager
2010-12-07  8:43           ` Neil Bothwick
2010-12-04 19:52 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-12-05  1:10   ` William Kenworthy

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