Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday 29 November 2010 10:58:10 I wrote:

> ... it'll be tomorrow before I have any emerging to do ...

Well, what strange results. Desktop responsiveness is drastically 
improved. On the other hand:

$ time (sudo emerge --sync)
[...]
real    10m3.185s
user    0m6.331s
sys     0m0.575s

This is with a Gentoo rsync server on the same LAN segment. A P4 box on 
the same segment recorded about 65s for the same command - nearly 10 
times as fast.

On this box, calculating dependencies took about another 10 minutes, 
though I couldn't time it accurately because it's only part of a 
process. I was watching gkrellm and its display of CPU load while 
simultaneously running four instances of BOINC clients (one per core) at 
large niceness levels, and in the graphs I couldn't see any sign that 
emerge was running at all.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.          Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.