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On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:50:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: |
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> On 12/02/2009 01:22 PM, Dirk Uys wrote: |
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>> This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, |
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>> Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk |
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>> access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between |
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>> Firefox and the kernel causing long pauses, but I've had several |
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>> different kernel versions running. |
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> It's a known problem. I have the same issue. But there is a solution: |
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> start disk I/O heavy tasks with "ionice -c3". For emerge, this can be done |
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> automatically by putting this in your make.conf: |
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> PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}" |
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> ionice is in sys-apps/util-linux so it should be installed already. |
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Hum, I had forgotten about this command. It would have come in handy a |
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few days ago. But in the case of FireFox, wouldn't that make it worse? |
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Also, what do you mean by known problem? What sort of set-up causes |
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the problem? Is this related at all to the hardware used? Or is this |
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purely in software? |
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Cheers, |
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