At 2006-08-04T21:37:25+0000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 23:37:25 +0200 > From: Reinhard Kotucha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-to: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64]emerge make my comp slow :( > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.4.1 > > >>>>> "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.
Nothing unusual about a large untar process running for minutes at 100% (e.g., Firefox, OpenOffice), or the cache-rebuild step after a --sync. > 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 > -- J'raxis 270145 http://www.jraxis.com/ -- [email protected] mailing list
