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

[Mihir Sevak]

unfortunately i had it with both ...
  touchpad and usb mouse


On 8/4/06, Rodrigo Gnoatto Amaral <rodrigo.g.amaral@×××××.com> wrote:
> I had this problem only with USB mouses.
>
> 2006/8/4, Mihir Sevak <mihir.sevak@×××××.com>:
> > 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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