Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:47:22 +0300 | From | Nikos Chantziaras <> | Subject | Re: Poor desktop responsiveness with background I/O-operations |
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On 09/21/2009 10:47 PM, James Cloos wrote: >[...] > I had that kernel up for soemthing like five weeks, on a busy, low-ram > laptop, w/o and long pauses or other noticeable pain. For at least two > years before that the best this laptop could manage before latency > became horrific was a fortnight, and weekly reboots were desirable. > > Unfortunately, before I could send out a congratulatory note (I wanted > to first confirm that the result remained) I pulled up and started see- > ing even worse latency then ever. >[...] > A git pull on a clone of Linus' tree is a great way to trigger the > problem. As is using Gentoo's portage to install/upgrade anything. > (Bad python; no alligator!¹)
Fortunately, this is completely (at least here) solved by putting those in make.conf:
PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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