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On 12/02/2009 01:22 PM, Dirk Uys wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, |
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> Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk |
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> access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between |
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> Firefox and the kernel causing long pauses, but I've had several |
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> different kernel versions running. |
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>[...] |
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It's a known problem. I have the same issue. But there is a solution: |
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start disk I/O heavy tasks with "ionice -c3". For emerge, this can be |
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done automatically by putting this in your make.conf: |
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PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}" |
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ionice is in sys-apps/util-linux so it should be installed already. |
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