Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread tuxic
Hi Walter, thanks for your input again. A said previously: This is not a problem of a high load, which needs to be handled. This is kinda temporary deadlock. Even if I would choose the best possible scheduler...the CPU would not get the chance to execute the code of the scheduler, because

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread Walter Dnes
You can make some tradeoffs with kernel options. Which one you choose is up to you (assuming it's your personal machine). In "make menuconfig" go to... General setup --> Preemption Model ---> You have 3 choices. The 1st choice will probably finish your rendering fastest, but other

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On your troubled machine set up a terminal and ping google.com repeatedly once a second. Watch to see if that actually stops when your machine is showing problems. You don't have to shell in from a separate machine. I just find it more repeatable and if the machine really hangs sometimes you can

RE: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread Pengcheng Xu
://jsteward.moe > -Original Message- > From: tu...@posteo.de > Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 11:10 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ? > > On 05/06 04:19, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 05/06 07:07, Mark Knecht wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread tuxic
On 05/06 04:19, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 05/06 07:07, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 3:21 AM wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > while rendering with Blender the system performance (especially > > > graphic related stuff) lacks. That's not nice but it seems that this > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread tuxic
On 05/06 07:07, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 3:21 AM wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > while rendering with Blender the system performance (especially > > graphic related stuff) lacks. That's not nice but it seems that this > > is the way it is designed. > > > > What makes me a little

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread tuxic
On 05/06 02:47, Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 09:16:33AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > It looks like blender is a heavy-duty program that bogs down your > > system. You could buy a new machine, or you could try the "nice" > > command. The tradeoff is that your system becomes

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 3:21 AM wrote: > > > Hi, > > while rendering with Blender the system performance (especially > graphic related stuff) lacks. That's not nice but it seems that this > is the way it is designed. > > What makes me a little nervous are freezes of several seconds. It not > onlu

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 09:16:33AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > It looks like blender is a heavy-duty program that bogs down your > system. You could buy a new machine, or you could try the "nice" > command. The tradeoff is that your system becomes more responsive > because the program is

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread tuxic
On 05/06 09:16, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 12:21:00PM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote > > > Does everyone has the same problems probably already solved > > or any idea how I can those freezes? > > It looks like blender is a heavy-duty program that bogs down your > system. You

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 12:21:00PM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote > Does everyone has the same problems probably already solved > or any idea how I can those freezes? It looks like blender is a heavy-duty program that bogs down your system. You could buy a new machine, or you could try the