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Nicholas J. Michalek writes: |
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> Roll-call thread! I'm here! |
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Cool. Hi Nicholas! Hi Fritze! |
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> Indeed, this list has tended to have periods of dormancy... like me, we |
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> probably all forgot about it until this recent resurrection. |
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My post took awhile until it showed up, so had already filed a bug report |
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about this list not really existing. Now I closed it :) |
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> Rather than let it die again, I say we throw out ideas for discussion. |
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> I think we should have regular posts commenting on performance |
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> improvements (or otherwise) of recent package updates, such as openrc |
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> or glibc, or anything anyone is interested in. |
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Sounds good. I'll start then with what I was about to post on gentoo-user, |
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when I remembered that there should be this list. |
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Hi there! |
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I am a little disappointed by the performance of my system. mplayer |
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sometimes stutters a little during the calculation phase of emerge -DpN |
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@world, swfdec-player does so even more. Well, sometimes even without |
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emerges, I guess this flash player is not coded so well. |
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My system is not the fastest, silence and low power consumption was more |
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important for me. Still, it should be fast enough I think. I have an AMD |
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Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e CPU (using -march), 4GB of memory, an |
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1.5 TB drive. The whole system is encrypted (aes-xts-plain) and LVMed. |
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While the LVM overhead should be small, encryption of course creates some |
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extra load. /var/tmp/portage is an unencrypted tmpfs volume though. kernel |
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is 2.6.31-tuxonice. I'm running KDE4 with desktop effects enabled (running |
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ati-drivers), X itself takes about 30-40% of CPU time according to top. |
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mplayer itself needs less than 20%. |
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PORTAGE_NICENESS is 15, PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND uses ionice -c 3. I thought |
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that with these settings emerges should not be noticeable. mplayer shows |
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little stutters even with a niceness of 19. This looks wrong to me. |
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The kernel is configured as low-latency desktop. BTW, the kernel config is |
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here, just in case someone wants to have a look: |
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http://wonkology.org/~wonko/stuff/gentoo/config-genkernel-x86-2.6.31- |
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tuxonice_k8 |
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So what I am asking is: |
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1) What might be wrong? |
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2) Tuning tricks. Tweaking the schedulers, different kernel sources. mm- |
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sources perhaps? But they look rather old. zen-sources? I might give them |
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a try. But then, I like software suspend, and tuxonice is regarded to be |
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better than the normal software suspend, and even with tuxonice I tend to |
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have problems. |
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Any input is appreciated. It's not a big problem, though, I could live |
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with that. But this is Gentoo, we like to tweak things, don't we? Let's |
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get this list alive again. |
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Wonko |
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