From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SSKZ9-0000Mx-8o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 04:01:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CA47E079E; Thu, 10 May 2012 04:01:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-f53.google.com (mail-pb0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E6CE0761 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 03:59:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbrr13 with SMTP id rr13so1699144pbb.40 for ; Wed, 09 May 2012 20:59:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=aFwC1TjVBQLpYWqqTnZ60H8itJf81ffMDU8nz96NoDg=; b=P/ruzQ8Cf3G1OhW+He2jTCqxzSBdld6yBlZ6nbXMOoBda4p9dqyFfVj2tqe5mew4GL IJ+ADOom4LbqM8WU+PVqFEbQoKU5Y8+DBElX/Dvc5CTjy3Kh0XB1Bqp3bRYbPbkP+gFp NyDnmZZqADmGDmPgrGPcUYWcSBW2XZ3vjybPnSGNRdrO/+aI6McKpA4/owGQQwBpk0JW ZB63OfeVjlBg+9/K64U3pv+wga3jOQK/gr7NDKvjDKM93CRBsguobFIa2sWs9vO+HwIA 5Prgk/HpjA/Xcd2k2FA69D592sIZhVjmO+inURkOvsZjW8I5ks9/8P9mN8MTIC3Zl9wl wenw== 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 Received: by 10.68.227.169 with SMTP id sb9mr15432937pbc.157.1336622350903; Wed, 09 May 2012 20:59:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.39.227 with HTTP; Wed, 9 May 2012 20:59:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120510030001.0158d406@weird.wonkology.org> References: <20120216162948.7eea6070@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218180407.74055f5e@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218220521.1278e023@bluewin.ch> <1705219.vsiCQe2Sr8@weird> <20120507144134.4ea24fc3@weird.wonkology.org> <20120507231123.49125d30@weird.wonkology.org> <20120509214419.34d6bbe4@weird.wonkology.org> <20120509213833.5e9911ba@digimed.co.uk> <20120510030001.0158d406@weird.wonkology.org> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 13:59:10 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs From: Adam Carter To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 12d4e0a6-cbbb-44da-865a-ce800f7e083a X-Archives-Hash: 2e1774f040622f778b62ed1c0d91f898 > There's plenty of swap space available. With 16 G of RAM it should not > be needed, but sometimes my load gets really really high, and when I can > use the system again, there is 2-3 G of swap usage. I haven't found out > yet what this is, it seems to happen when emerging things, maybe related > to having 5 G tmpfs for portage, but when it happened the last time only > 100 M were being used. Yeah so it wont be swap related. This sounds more like the desktop responsiveness issue discussed a while back. It might be worth googling that (main issue was fixed in later kernels) http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2637_video&num=1 There's other things that may help, ie CONFIG_HZ_1000=y CONFIG_HZ=1000