Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:41:11
Message-Id: 201012012039.13285.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity? by Stroller
1 On Wednesday 01 December 2010 17:24:24 Stroller wrote:
2 > On 1/12/2010, at 12:27pm, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > On Monday 29 November 2010 10:58:10 I wrote:
4 > >> ... it'll be tomorrow before I have any emerging to do ...
5 > >
6 > > Well, what strange results. Desktop responsiveness is drastically
7 > > improved. On the other hand:
8 > >
9 > > $ time (sudo emerge --sync)
10 > > [...]
11 > > real 10m3.185s
12 > > user 0m6.331s
13 > > sys 0m0.575s
14 > >
15 > > This is with a Gentoo rsync server on the same LAN segment. A P4
16 > > box on the same segment recorded about 65s for the same command -
17 > > nearly 10 times as fast.
18 > >
19 > > On this box, calculating dependencies took about another 10
20 > > minutes, though I couldn't time it accurately because it's only
21 > > part of a process.
22 >
23 > This was using CK sources?
24
25 It was, yes.
26
27 --
28 Rgds
29 Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.