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 1SSc9W-0005fK-5u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 22:48:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4071BE0C46; Thu, 10 May 2012 22:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5756E0AD3 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 22:46:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lagu2 with SMTP id u2so1658725lag.40 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 15:46:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=e9g0xB8ny+wjLbcLMyjaLqOu5YvwjmdAEuwvphWTnMM=; b=RBOLqj6RZWfMNkCxSvV/byTDF870uc/ZbCnpWFC2NgfUORVWByXIqfOoPOZEbdyW99 ryMFkDvSP53NiB0NvYsYr79nXsBJoyJq5pdHdjQiVdfvPAJa6KiY+e+p+G2efW6dA+dZ mbuvrsR8WuqVsY39Q8KZYGZpibWmGBR4AvByv9W87eZev1GfvNGQS4T+yO9OVc9j4UJo ybtzs8et63TQ7D+Mt2TjcoDDvaXEoO/g27OLWgWxFXoKsCMUzE6Lyr575AL4ATKuhTYc JaPFnZRXA8l4Z4k9sFfZ0jg6+sK9EBmf2WqnLxV1dQXILK12uu5itZNptM4JS8bE706v 1C9A== Received: by 10.112.86.166 with SMTP id q6mr555381lbz.6.1336689966700; Thu, 10 May 2012 15:46:06 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.35.108 with HTTP; Thu, 10 May 2012 15:45:46 -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> From: Paul Hartman Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 17:45:46 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1ygrCKOgJFmrnGMscqOoou9D2Do Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 1ce45dea-8241-45e7-a013-b5bd387b02f1 X-Archives-Hash: f2a8f1fd8c628f36d15a19748230e23f On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > >> On Wed, 9 May 2012 21:44:19 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: >> >> > I guess I could remove anything running on my KDE desktop one by one, >> > including plasmoids, and see if playback gets better. But not now, I >> > finally have to actually do some work. >> >> I recently experienced slowdowns and delays with KDE. It turned out I >> had inadvertently disabled swap (I'd rearranged my partitions and not >> updated fstab). As soon as I gave it some swap space the delays >> disappeared. > > 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. Hi, I realize this thread is bigger than an encyclopedia by now, so I apologize if this has already been suggested. :) I'm curious if you look at /proc/interrupts if the disk with I/O problems is sharing interrupt with some other device. Maybe there is a conflict of some sort. On my motherboard, one of the SATA controllers shares an interrupt with the soundcard, for example.