On 01/16/2011 08:25 PM, Grant wrote: > I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes > into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as > chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this > besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM and MAKEOPTS="-j1". > > - Grant > The "near freeze" is probably the result from Linux' bad IO-scheduling. I know the phenomena :( I'm very much looking forward to some future changes in the kernel :)
For now it'll help to use "ionice -c 3". This is the IO-equivalent to "nice -n 19". $ ionice -c 3 emerge something Bye, Daniel -- PGP key @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=0xBB9D4887&op=get # gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0xBB9D4887
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