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On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick writes: |
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>> On Wed, 9 May 2012 21:44:19 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>> > I guess I could remove anything running on my KDE desktop one by one, |
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>> > including plasmoids, and see if playback gets better. But not now, I |
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>> > finally have to actually do some work. |
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>> I recently experienced slowdowns and delays with KDE. It turned out I |
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>> had inadvertently disabled swap (I'd rearranged my partitions and not |
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>> updated fstab). As soon as I gave it some swap space the delays |
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>> disappeared. |
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> There's plenty of swap space available. With 16 G of RAM it should not |
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> be needed, but sometimes my load gets really really high, and when I can |
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> use the system again, there is 2-3 G of swap usage. I haven't found out |
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> yet what this is, it seems to happen when emerging things, maybe related |
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> to having 5 G tmpfs for portage, but when it happened the last time only |
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> 100 M were being used. |
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Hi, |
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I realize this thread is bigger than an encyclopedia by now, so I |
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apologize if this has already been suggested. :) |
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I'm curious if you look at /proc/interrupts if the disk with I/O |
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problems is sharing interrupt with some other device. Maybe there is a |
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conflict of some sort. |
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On my motherboard, one of the SATA controllers shares an interrupt |
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with the soundcard, for example. |
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