On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:18:47AM +0200, Uwe Düffert wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > But, I'm only ever comparing times on the same system, and this > > package (abiword) was almost at the end of my build, so the amount > > of '/' used is almost the same (for me, /home is always a separate > > filesystem - ok, I've probably extended the usage of /var/log - and > > yes, updating the browser cache involves head movement, but such a > > large variation ? > No, that does not sound reasonable. Does that only happen with abiword or > are there other examples (worth mentioning)?
At the moment, this is the first package where I've *noticed* the difference. I left a script running overnight, but the script was buggy. > > May be thats the reason: What about throtteling because of high > temperature? Or running *something* in the background forcing task > switches? > I think some intel processors throttle because of temperature. Mine (both machines) are athlon64. Yes, task switching happens - I've got 110 tasks at the moment (cc1plus, doltcompile, make - all from abiword's build ], X, firefox-bin, icewm, rxvt-unicode, and the normal system processes. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
