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On 12/03/2010 04:41 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> Re the discussion on cgroups on the 24/25 november - on my old AMD |
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> barton 2500+ desktop - in the past a load of anything more than 5 made |
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> it very painful to use. Add in running windows in a qemu vm at the same |
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> time (all in 1.5G ram) and its almost unusable as an interactive |
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> desktop. |
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> Now, with Florians (thanks for the scripts) version of using it on |
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> gentoo, even at a load in excess of 12, its almost as good as with no |
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> load for desktop operations! |
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> To get the high load I am compiling a new kernel, running win2k in qemu, |
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> emerging latest updates, browsing the web and reading email in |
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> evolution, running updatedb and other cron jobs (just restarted after a |
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> tuxonice hibernate so everything is triggering at once!). |
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I would expect some disk swapping activity when running all those apps in |
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1.5GB of RAM. Are you seeing any? |
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