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On 18/10/14 16:49, James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> OK, so I run a minimalist DE (LXDE) and htop to monitor |
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> system performance. The mobo has an fx8350 with 8 cores |
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> (currently set at 4GHz (unclocked). The system rarily |
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> uses over 8/32 gig of it's ram. So the resources are not |
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> even close to exhausted. cpus mostly idle. |
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> I do keep (2) browsers up, with tabs aplenty, but they are not being used |
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> very much. It's mostly a myriad of documents to read while I hack at code. |
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> Often the latency is minimal and the system response (as guaged) |
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> from the keyboard is fine (quick). Other times the active terminal |
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> session is a pig mostly in the web browser windows. |
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> So. Is there a make.conf setting or elsewhere to make the |
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> terminal session response times, in the browsers (seamonkey, firefox) |
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> faster? Something like a ram_disk just for the browsers? |
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> Note, after I finish up a project, many (browser) terminal sessions |
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> are deleted and things are fine again. I'm just asking for a way |
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> to ensure more ram/cpu resources are dedicated to the browsers |
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> to boost performance, on a dynamic basis (without manual intervention). |
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> Maybe a ram_disk_cache (dynamic renice to-10 for the active window?) just |
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> for the active browser window (the browser window I'm typing in? (background |
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> code compilations are not concurrent with |
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> the typing latency in the browser windows)..... |
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> ideas? |
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> James |
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two things you might like to look into: 1. cgroups (including freezer) |
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to help isolate your browsers and also 2. look at atop instead of htop |
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as this includes disk io |
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