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On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:10:30 -0500, Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu> |
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> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:32:20PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jes??s Guerrero |
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> 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 |
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work, |
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>> > Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of |
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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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A lot. But even though it's possible to hog that system with firefox |
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alone, I wasn't thinking in that extreme case. I was more thinking along |
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the lines of wmware running a huge vm inside of it and I only meant firefox |
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and emerge as little Satan's helpers :D |
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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? |
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Well, that's why I ask if he's hitting swap. ANY app will require disk |
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access, even if not directly, if the ram is full. I have no idea if that's |
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the case though, I was just pointing at a possibility :) |
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Jesús Guerrero |
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