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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:15:19
Message-Id: gj5upa$761$2@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now by Dale
1 Dale wrote:
2 > Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> On my Gentoo at home, yes. The mouse cursor skips, scrolling gets
4 >> skippy/laggy too. I have a dual core E6600@3.33Ghz with 4GB DDR2 RAM.
5 >>
6 >
7 > I have to use version 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 for my kernel or it does the same
8 > thing. Someone mentioned that it is a setting in the kernel for one of
9 > the new features. At some point I plan to post the info here and try to
10 > figure out what setting I should use but just haven't done it yet.
11 >
12 > The only other thing I can think of is the drives being busy. I think
13 > they have ionice now too.
14
15 I have this in my make.conf:
16
17 PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"
18
19 Helped a bit. But still the GUI (KDE 3.5.10) gets pretty laggy. Just a
20 few hours ago I updated to gcc-4.3.2-r1. Even with nice 19 and ionice
21 3, lag is there.
22
23 I hope someone finds the magic button in the kernel config to fix that :P

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>