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On 12/01/2010 02:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Monday 29 November 2010 10:58:10 I wrote: |
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>> ... it'll be tomorrow before I have any emerging to do ... |
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> Well, what strange results. Desktop responsiveness is drastically |
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> improved. On the other hand: |
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> $ time (sudo emerge --sync) |
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> [...] |
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> real 10m3.185s |
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> user 0m6.331s |
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> sys 0m0.575s |
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> This is with a Gentoo rsync server on the same LAN segment. A P4 box on |
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> the same segment recorded about 65s for the same command - nearly 10 |
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> times as fast. |
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Hmm, in that case try to be less aggressive in the portage settings. |
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For example comment out the PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND line in make.conf and |
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see if that's the cause of the slowdown. Also try lower nice levels |
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instead of 19. |
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Though I'm not sure why this happens in the first place. |