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On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 18:36 +0000, Mark Creamer wrote: |
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> I have a fresh install of 2005.0. PC specs are AMD Athlon 64 3200, 2 GB |
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> RAM. I'm noticing that certain applications will monopolize the CPU for |
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> a moment and then drop off. But during that time, mouse is hung, and |
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> nothing else will work or will work sporadically. |
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> An example would be opening PAN newsgroup reader, and selecting a group |
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> that has a large number of messages. Until all the message headers are |
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> loaded into the reader, even if that's only a few seconds, I can't do |
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> anything. |
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> How can I tune Gentoo so the processor doesn't peak for one app like this? |
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> Thanks! |
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> Mark |
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Hmm, I've seen this problem with machines that don't have DMA on, if |
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you're using IDE hard drives, what's the output of hdparm /dev/hda or |
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whatever the drive is? |
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Allan |
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