On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/02/2009 01:22 PM, Dirk Uys wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> 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.
>
>
>
Thanx, I don't have time at the moment to test it, but I will surely try
this.
Regards
Dirk
