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 1POyRd-0007Fa-Vs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:11:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BF26E0527 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 20:10:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD30E07AA for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 19:53:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2861F1B407C for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 19:53:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.889 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.889 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.290, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mE3bDVT1GjAn for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 19:53:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 860C81B4010 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 19:53:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1POyAX-0007v5-Sv for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:53:17 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-189-13.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.189.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:53:17 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-189-13.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:53:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: cgroupd really do work! Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 11:52:47 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1291423310.13545.8.camel@rattus> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-189-13.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101119 Thunderbird/3.3a1 In-Reply-To: <1291423310.13545.8.camel@rattus> X-Archives-Salt: 9ebf543c-6eea-477d-bc0d-c4aff694cd34 X-Archives-Hash: 8b2be0d071065bd41648169e76e57b31 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?