<br><br><b><i>Paul de Vrieze &lt;pauldv@g.o&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Saturday 05 August 2006 11:11, yoshi watanabe wrote:<br><br>&gt; also, setting PORTAGE_NICENESS in make.conf to something like 3 or 5<br>&gt; *really* helps. i also noticed that my pc becomes a bit sluggish during<br>&gt; certain compiles if i don't set it. (defaults to 0). more info on this<br>&gt; option in manual for nice command.<br><br>Actually setting the nice value to 19 (the maximum value with lowest priority) <br>puts portage into batch scheduling mode. This means that it gets longer <br>timeslices (actually speeding up a bit) and at the same time does not <br>influence the reaction speed of anything else.<br><br>Paul<br><br>-- <br>Paul de Vrieze<br>Gentoo Developer<br>Mail: pauldv@g.o<br>Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net<br></blockquote><br>I compiled my kernel again with
 the correct sata drivers (libata, sata_via) as module. well i guess it "dma" thing again. does sata drives not support dma or what is wrong ??<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>flukebox@flukebox ~ $ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda&nbsp; (my whole hardisk)<br>/dev/sda:<br>&nbsp;Timing cached reads:&nbsp;&nbsp; 2592 MB in&nbsp; 2.00 seconds = 1295.31 MB/sec<br>&nbsp;Timing buffered disk reads:&nbsp; 170 MB in&nbsp; 3.01 seconds =&nbsp; 56.41 MB/sec<br><br>flukebox@flukebox ~ $ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda13 (gentoo partition)<br>/dev/sda13:<br>&nbsp;Timing cached reads:&nbsp;&nbsp; 2620 MB in&nbsp; 2.00 seconds = 1309.80 MB/sec<br>&nbsp;Timing buffered disk reads:&nbsp;&nbsp; 92 MB in&nbsp; 3.05 seconds =&nbsp; 30.16 MB/sec<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>flukebox@flukebox ~ $ sudo hdparm -u1 /dev/sda<br><br>/dev/sda:<br>&nbsp;setting unmaskirq to 1
 (on)<br>&nbsp;HDIO_SET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>flukebox@flukebox ~ $ sudo hdparm -c1 /dev/sda<br><br>/dev/sda:<br>&nbsp;setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1<br>&nbsp;HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument<br>&nbsp;IO_support&nbsp;&nbsp; =&nbsp; 0 (default 16-bit)<br>flukebox@flukebox ~ $ sudo hdparm -c0 /dev/sda<br><br>/dev/sda:<br>&nbsp;setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 0<br>&nbsp;IO_support&nbsp;&nbsp; =&nbsp; 0 (default 16-bit)<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>still with no luck :(. Although PORTAGE_NICENESS help me a bit.<br>I set PORTAGE_NICENESS="5" in my make.conf<br><br>last time i attached 2 screenshot but mail returned to me back&nbsp; undelivered.<br><br>~jaiks<br><br><br><br><br><br><p>&#32;
	

	
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