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

[Rodrigo Gnoatto Amaral]

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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