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On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:32:20PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jes??s Guerrero squawked: |
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> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:22:38 +0200, Dirk Uys <dirkcuys@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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? |
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> > The application that is mostly involved when I get |
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> > these long delays is FireFox, VMWare and emerge (emerge --sync). |
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> I know I am hitting at the obvious, but I can't be sure you already |
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> checked that. |
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> Since the applications you are using can be quite intensive in memory |
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> usage, did you check whether you are hitting swap or not? |
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I realize that Firefox is a memory hog, but how many tabs must be open |
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for Swap to hit severely on a machine with 4gb ram? :) |
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Question in general: emerge --sync and VMWare I can see, but why does |
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FireFox require heavy disk access? (Actually, this is an honest |
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question: my work machine had a problem yesterday where everytime I |
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click a link in FireFox the computer freezes for about 30 seconds. |
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Turns out the problem was that someone else's rogue process was |
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hitting the NFS server like crazy so whatever disk-related activity |
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FireFox does after every link click cannot get through. It is somehow |
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worrisome that background IO like writing to the History file can lock |
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up the UI...) |
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When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I. |
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