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On 01/16/2011 08:25 PM, Grant wrote: |
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> I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes |
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> into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as |
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> chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this |
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> besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM and MAKEOPTS="-j1". |
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> - Grant |
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The "near freeze" is probably the result from Linux' bad IO-scheduling. |
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I know the phenomena :( |
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I'm very much looking forward to some future changes in the kernel :) |
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For now it'll help to use "ionice -c 3". This is the IO-equivalent to |
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"nice -n 19". |
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$ ionice -c 3 emerge something |
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Bye, |
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Daniel |
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