From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5531387B1 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:49:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D86ACE09E3; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:49:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C2286E09AF for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:49:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17BDF3402FB for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:49:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.277 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.277 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.324, BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no 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 CbhPzD0_OGkI for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:49:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7AB1F3402EC for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:49:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XfWFl-000451-Vc for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:49:14 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:49:13 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:49:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] gigabyte mobo latency Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:49:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26.1) X-Archives-Salt: a1f5b117-9daa-4038-a5ce-86d42df39370 X-Archives-Hash: 0c0ac2a0f96b0629a6c9c56fcbbd56a5 Hello, OK, so I run a minimalist DE (LXDE) and htop to monitor system performance. The mobo has an fx8350 with 8 cores (currently set at 4GHz (unclocked). The system rarily uses over 8/32 gig of it's ram. So the resources are not even close to exhausted. cpus mostly idle. I do keep (2) browsers up, with tabs aplenty, but they are not being used very much. It's mostly a myriad of documents to read while I hack at code. Often the latency is minimal and the system response (as guaged) from the keyboard is fine (quick). Other times the active terminal session is a pig mostly in the web browser windows. So. Is there a make.conf setting or elsewhere to make the terminal session response times, in the browsers (seamonkey, firefox) faster? Something like a ram_disk just for the browsers? Note, after I finish up a project, many (browser) terminal sessions are deleted and things are fine again. I'm just asking for a way to ensure more ram/cpu resources are dedicated to the browsers to boost performance, on a dynamic basis (without manual intervention). Maybe a ram_disk_cache (dynamic renice to-10 for the active window?) just for the active browser window (the browser window I'm typing in? (background code compilations are not concurrent with the typing latency in the browser windows)..... ideas? James