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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:03:22
Message-Id: id5rge$l35$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity? by Peter Humphrey
1 On 12/01/2010 02:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Monday 29 November 2010 10:58:10 I wrote:
3 >
4 >> ... it'll be tomorrow before I have any emerging to do ...
5 >
6 > Well, what strange results. Desktop responsiveness is drastically
7 > improved. On the other hand:
8 >
9 > $ time (sudo emerge --sync)
10 > [...]
11 > real 10m3.185s
12 > user 0m6.331s
13 > sys 0m0.575s
14 >
15 > This is with a Gentoo rsync server on the same LAN segment. A P4 box on
16 > the same segment recorded about 65s for the same command - nearly 10
17 > times as fast.
18
19 Hmm, in that case try to be less aggressive in the portage settings.
20 For example comment out the PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND line in make.conf and
21 see if that's the cause of the slowdown. Also try lower nice levels
22 instead of 19.
23
24 Though I'm not sure why this happens in the first place.