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It turns out that for me the problem was the ati-drivers package. |
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Switching to the radeon driver today lowered the CPU usage back to the |
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9% range that I was used to: |
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mark@lightning ~ $ top |
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top - 12:35:05 up 4:07, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.16 |
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Tasks: 91 total, 1 running, 89 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie |
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Cpu(s): 12.3% us, 2.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 85.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si |
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Mem: 1025944k total, 431836k used, 594108k free, 19672k buffers |
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Swap: 2008084k total, 0k used, 2008084k free, 167108k cached |
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PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND |
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11115 mark 15 0 247m 100m 30m S 9.6 10.1 18:13.38 mythfrontend |
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10794 root 15 0 208m 34m 20m S 3.7 3.5 7:40.66 X |
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912 root -42 -5 0 0 0 S 0.7 0.0 0:50.06 IRQ 217 |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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On 9/14/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm just curious whether anyone besides me is noticing their |
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> machine feeling somewhat sluggish since doing the gcc-4.1 upgrade? |
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> Mine seems ot be using a lot of memory. Alt-tabbing between windows |
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> seems slow. Ethernet traffic in my browser is causing pretty |
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> noticeable interruptions in things like MythTV. |
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> |
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> I noticed that the rtirq scripts were not setting one of my sound |
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> cards priorities correctly after the upgrade so I changed the config |
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> file and fixed that, but I don't think it should have changed at all. |
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> |
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> The machine is still quite usable, but it doesn't feel as snappy as |
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> it did last week. |
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> I made no changes in /etc/make.conf for the upgrade. Everything is |
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> pretty basic as far as I can tell: |
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> CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" |
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> CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" |
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> USE="dri radeon mmx mmxext sse sse2 3dnow 3dnowext gnome kde -esd |
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> -arts ladspa nptl nptlonly audiofile gimp gimpprint ppds usb alsa cdr |
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> dvd dvdr dvdread jack jack-tmpfs fluidsynth tcltk sndfile v4l v4l2 |
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> mysql flac xscreensaver -samba i8x0 mythtv apache2 -lirc mjpeg xvid |
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> real cjk unicode vorbis ogg truetype java -eds" |
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> CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" |
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> MAKEOPTS="-j2" |
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> |
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> 3GHz AMD64 with 1GB & NVidia chipset/SATA drives. |
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> |
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> Mark |
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> |
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