Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-26 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Daniel, on Saturday, 2007-02-10 at 12:49:14, you wrote: I will give short overview what i have tried so far. 1. Trying different I/O Scheduler ( cfq anticipatory and deadline) 2. Enabling Low latency kernel and Preemptible kernel 3. Setting 1000 HZ for timer frequency 4. Tried the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-26 Thread Kellystewart00
Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone -Original Message- From: Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:28:35 To:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking Hi Daniel, on Saturday, 2007-02-10

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-10 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi i am back again! Unfortunately my problem is still bugging me! I will give short overview what i have tried so far. 1. Trying different I/O Scheduler ( cfq anticipatory and deadline) 2. Enabling Low latency kernel and Preemptible kernel 3. Setting 1000 HZ for timer frequency 4. Tried the

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-08 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 06 février 2007 à 22:28 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier a écrit : What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Did you try to play with ionice to assign priority. It has helped me a lot with io-intensive background taskes. Where can i get it. It seems to be included in util-linux but i have util-linux installed and ionice is missing! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-08 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 8 February 2007 19:34, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Where can i get it. It seems to be included in util-linux but i have util-linux installed and ionice is missing! It's explained here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462230.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 11:42 +0100, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Did you try to play with ionice to assign priority. It has helped me a lot with io-intensive background taskes. I am trying to compile it to overcome some heavy-disk access performance issues (ext3), but I can't! Not compatible with

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get better after changing the I/O scheduler for your hard disk. Of course, your

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-07 Thread Mike
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get better after changing the I/O scheduler for your

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
The hdparm optimizations, the CFQ scheduler and maybe low latency desktop in the kernel are the best way to make your desktop useable under heavy disk usage.These are my hdparm settings: [snip] Thanks for your suggestions. As i have an SATA harddisk, can i use hdparm with it , i thought it

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mike wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: No other suggestions? The hdparm optimizations, the CFQ scheduler and maybe low latency desktop in the kernel are the best way to make your desktop useable under heavy disk usage. And check you have HZ set to 1000. $ grep HZ /usr/src/linux/.config #

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-07 Thread Tom Naujokas
On 2/7/07, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No other suggestions? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Could your problem be similar to this: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-userm=114252338111258w=2 Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
The hdparm optimizations, the CFQ scheduler and maybe low latency desktop in the kernel are the best way to make your desktop useable under heavy disk usage.These are my hdparm settings: /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma=

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 6 February 2007 21:31, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: On the other i recently recognized when i doing some video editing i.e. demultiplex the movie with projectx which shows the speed of writing video and audio to the disk. It writes about 200MB with about 25MB/s then it halts for about

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-06 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Daniel Pielmeier: Hi all, i have bought components to assemble a new PC by myself. This are the main components. that's very interesting. You seem to have exactly the same problem I posted one minute before you :) My machine is an amd64 3000, with via

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Michael Schreckenbauer schrieb: Hi, Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 schrieb Daniel Pielmeier: Hi all, i have bought components to assemble a new PC by myself. This are the main components. that's very interesting. You seem to have exactly the same problem I posted one minute before you :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get better after changing the I/O scheduler for your hard disk. Of

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get better after changing the I/O scheduler for your hard disk. Of