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On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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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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> 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 done |
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> 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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Thanx, I don't have time at the moment to test it, but I will surely try |
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this. |
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Regards |
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Dirk |
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