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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On Saturday 27 December 2008 21:13:49 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> I have this in my make.conf: |
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>>> PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}" |
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>>> |
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>>> Helped a bit. But still the GUI (KDE 3.5.10) gets pretty laggy. |
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>>> Just a |
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>>> few hours ago I updated to gcc-4.3.2-r1. Even with nice 19 and ionice |
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>>> 3, lag is there. |
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>>> |
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>>> I hope someone finds the magic button in the kernel config to fix |
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>>> that :P |
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>> |
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>> There isn't one - at least not one that really works. |
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>> |
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>> Linux mostly ignores NICE and has done so since day one. The reason |
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>> according to Linux himself on some LKML post quite a while back is |
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>> that Linux has a semi-decent task scheduler and nice is a 100% manual |
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>> task scheduler. |
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> It got worse with kernel 2.6.28, btw, especially mouse cursor |
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> movement. It gets stuck and skips very noticeably. Fortunately, it's |
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> not a point yet where I would describe it as unusable, but if the |
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> trend continues, desktop will be totally unusable by 2.6.31/32 when |
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> doing something that produces load. |
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So it is not just me that has screwy mouse movement. I been using a old |
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kernel for a while now and even thought it was just a wrong setting on |
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my part. |
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Has anyone been telling the kernel folks about this problem so they can |
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fix it or roll something back? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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