On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:50:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras
squawked:
> On 12/02/2009 01:22 PM, Dirk Uys wrote:
>> This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work,
>> Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk
>> access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between
>> Firefox and the kernel causing long pauses, but I've had several
>> different kernel versions running.
>> [...]
>
> It's a known problem. I have the same issue. But there is a solution:
> start disk I/O heavy tasks with "ionice -c3". For emerge, this can be done
> automatically by putting this in your make.conf:
>
> PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"
>
> ionice is in sys-apps/util-linux so it should be installed already.
Hum, I had forgotten about this command. It would have come in handy a
few days ago. But in the case of FireFox, wouldn't that make it worse?
Also, what do you mean by known problem? What sort of set-up causes
the problem? Is this related at all to the hardware used? Or is this
purely in software?
Cheers,
W
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