Petter Haggholm wrote: > The subject is fairly descriptive. Often -- but not always -- an > emerge will render my system unusable. At a PORTAGE_NICENESS of 3, and > fairly standard MAKEOPTS of "-j2" (on a single-core system), I'm ... > well, rather surprised, confused, and very frustrated. I also can't be > very specific, because I have no real idea of what's causing this, and > the symptoms are very general: The system becomes unresponsive, the > mouse will move but with enough of a lag that physically moving it may > not cause a cursor movement for the next 30 seconds or so, clicking a > taskbar window may not have an effect at all; sometimes I can't even > ssh into the system from my other computer (to kill the emerge) > because it's slow enough that the ssh daemon times out my login > attempt. This never used to happen, I'm not aware of using any weird > settings, I recently rebuilt my entire system with conservative CFLAGS > (-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer), and I have an x86 > (pentium-m) system with very, very similar settings that exhibits no > such problems. > > Any hints, thoughts, or suggestions would be very much welcomed. > System info follows. > 1) Does the system go out from this state after some time or you have to cold reset it? 2) What happens if you put PORTAGE_NICENESS=19, MAKEOPTS of "-j2 -l1" ? l5 (small "L", not the number "one"), means "loadavg=<1" If loadavg goes up to 1 make waits this level to drop before continuing its job 3) Is DMA enabled for your HDD(s)? (hdparm -d1 /dev/xxx)? 4) Have you done any overclocking?
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