unfortunately i had it with both ... touchpad and usb mouse
On 8/4/06, Rodrigo Gnoatto Amaral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I had this problem only with USB mouses. 2006/8/4, Mihir Sevak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear memebers, > i am not a linux guru. I have been using linux only for couple years > now. I personally like it a lot but i am still trying to learn more > about it. So if my answer was wrong then i sincerely apologize. Please > don't think that Gentoo has a bad support because of my wrong answer. > Honestly i am using Gentoo because i can get answers for my questions > from these mailing lists. > Also i have an amd 64 gateway laptop. When i installed Gentoo on it > i had to install some software packages for my personal use. One of > them was Anjuta (i remember). It was a big package(lot of > dependencies) and there were other 2 packages which i was emerging at > the same time. I have to admit at that time i had a similar situation. > My mouse was almost not moving. But there are many variables involved > in that situation. So i am not sure if my conclusion that whenever one > emerges more then one package at the same time computer slows down is > absolutely correct. Also i will be very happy to learn something new > from this thread. > > Thanks. > > On 8/4/06, Reinhard Kotucha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>>> "Mihir" == Mihir Sevak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > That is a normal behaviour. Because emerge script downloads and > > > compile the software for you and that takes lot of cpu power. so > > > don't worry.. > > > > Downloading does not require much CPU power. It is definitely not > > normal that compiling takes so much CPU power that the mouse doesn't > > react. > > > > emerge runs a lot of sub-processes like wget, gcc... > > > > It would be interesting to know which program takes so much CPU power. > > The easiest way to find out whether a program takes extraordinary much > > CPU power or takes an exraordinary amount of memory is to run "top" in > > another window. > > > > If a process takes 98% of CPU time for more than a few seconds then > > there is something wrong. > > > > I'm using Linux since 1994 and we started with a 40MHz PC and 8MB > > RAM. It never happened that the mouse doesn't react except once: > > > > A Linux system becomes slow if it runs out of memory. I had 128MB RAM > > at the time a friend had to solve a numerical problem. In addition to > > the 256MB swap partition he had to install a 512MB swap file to be > > able to solve the problem. When the system is swapping you regret > > every keystroke and in this case you can expect that the mouse doesn't > > react immediately. > > > > One of Linux's greatest features is that it behaves very well under > > heavy load. I don't think that what Jai described is normal behavior. > > > > > > > > This is my first mail to this list. I'm impressed to see how good > > Gentoo works and how good it is maintained. I'm subscribed to the > > list for a few weeks and I'm amazed about the good support provided > > here. Let me take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who > > is involved. > > > > BTW., before I bought my new computer end of last year I planned to > > switch from Slackware to Debian. Because the most important thing for > > me is TeX, I asked Google for Acroread on amd64 and it told me that it > > works under Gentoo, hence I tried it. I have problems with menu based > > configuration programs because they do not provide a command history, > > menu items do not tell me exactly what happens if I select them and it > > would help a lot to know in advance what the next step will be. > > > > The Gentoo Handbook solves all these problems brilliantly. I cannot > > imagine a better solution. I have the impression that Gentoo had been > > designed exactly for my needs. > > > > Regards, and many thanks, > > > > Reinhard > > > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-4592165 > > Marschnerstr. 25 > > D-30167 Hannover mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > -- > > [email protected] mailing list > > > > > > > -- > "How can anything be impossible when impossible itself says I M Possible???" > Mihir > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
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