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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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Thanks Daniel, that got me through the chromium emerge without a single hiccup. |
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- Grant |
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