Re: [gentoo-amd64]emerge make my comp slow :(

[Mihir Sevak]

Dear memebers,
  i am not a linux guru. I have been using linux only for couple years
now. I personally like it a lot but i am still trying to learn more
about it. So if my answer was wrong then i sincerely apologize. Please
don't think that Gentoo has a bad support because of my wrong answer.
Honestly i am using Gentoo because i can get answers for my questions
from these mailing lists.
  Also i have an amd 64 gateway laptop. When i installed Gentoo on it
i had to install some software packages for my personal use. One of
them was Anjuta (i remember). It was a big package(lot of
dependencies) and there were other 2 packages which i was emerging at
the same time. I have to admit at that time i had a similar situation.
My mouse was almost not moving. But there are many variables involved
in that situation. So i am not sure if my conclusion that whenever one
emerges more then one package at the same time computer slows down is
absolutely correct. Also i will be very happy to learn something new
from this thread.

Thanks.

On 8/4/06, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha@×××.de> wrote:
> >>>>> "Mihir" == Mihir Sevak <mihir.sevak@×××××.com> writes:
>
>   > That is a normal behaviour. Because emerge script downloads and
>   > compile the software for you and that takes lot of cpu power.  so
>   > don't worry..
>
> Downloading does not require much CPU power.  It is definitely not
> normal that compiling takes so much CPU power that the mouse doesn't
> react.
>
> emerge runs a lot of sub-processes like wget, gcc...
>
> It would be interesting to know which program takes so much CPU power.
> The easiest way to find out whether a program takes extraordinary much
> CPU power or takes an exraordinary amount of memory is to run "top" in
> another window.
>
> If a process takes 98% of CPU time for more than a few seconds then
> there is something wrong.
>
> I'm using Linux since 1994 and we started with a 40MHz PC and 8MB
> RAM.  It never happened that the mouse doesn't react except once:
>
> A Linux system becomes slow if it runs out of memory.  I had 128MB RAM
> at the time a friend had to solve a numerical problem.  In addition to
> the 256MB swap partition he had to install a 512MB swap file to be
> able to solve the problem.  When the system is swapping you regret
> every keystroke and in this case you can expect that the mouse doesn't
> react immediately.
>
> One of Linux's greatest features is that it behaves very well under
> heavy load.  I don't think that what Jai described is normal behavior.
>
>
>
> This is my first mail to this list.  I'm impressed to see how good
> Gentoo works and how good it is maintained.  I'm subscribed to the
> list for a few weeks and I'm amazed about the good support provided
> here.  Let me take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who
> is involved.
>
> BTW., before I bought my new computer end of last year I planned to
> switch from Slackware to Debian.  Because the most important thing for
> me is TeX, I asked Google for Acroread on amd64 and it told me that it
> works under Gentoo, hence I tried it.  I have problems with menu based
> configuration programs because they do not provide a command history,
> menu items do not tell me exactly what happens if I select them and it
> would help a lot to know in advance what the next step will be.
>
> The Gentoo Handbook solves all these problems brilliantly.  I cannot
> imagine a better solution.  I have the impression that Gentoo had been
> designed exactly for my needs.
>
> Regards, and many thanks,
>
>   Reinhard
>
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