> BTW, this keeps on reminding. I have found that under heavy CPU load,
> responsiveness of system is hell poor. e.g. when I am compiling KDE etc.
>
> Any suggestions for improvements are sincerely requested. I also work on HP-UX
> where system is as responsive as any other time even uner 100% CPU load. Linux
> doesn't even appear on the comparison scale and I don't like that.
>
I had problems like this when I used to play mp3's along with doing some
disk hogging tasks. Even if the disk was being used minimally, I used to
get jitters. I found out that DMA was not enabled by default, a lot of
other things were missing.
I was taking just the 10% advantage of my HDD.
I tuned the HDD device using typical uptions of hdparm like -c1 -d1 and
the problems like this are solved. I used this on my cdrom drive and now I
get 1.71 MBps throughputs. And the same jitter problem is solved.
Basically you need to tune your machine well to get optimal performance
and small things like this are solved.
VaibhaV
PS: the volume on this list has decreased suddenly? The mails are coming
back quite fast. Are we missing some B/W generators? :-)
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