[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia and i/o problem
On 11/26/2010 09:50 AM, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: I run the compilation without X, and try to acces over ssh. I can enter in machine, but so slowly. The system become unresponsive. If I stay the compilation process end, i can use the system again. Okay, that's not a 'freeze' (as I normally use that word), the machine is just too busy to listen to you. (Like a boy who is busy playing a computer game won't listen to his parents :) The same thing happens to me whenever I compile firefox, for example, because memory fills up at one point and the machine starts swapping to disk. When the machine starts swapping to disk, I can't use the machine at all for about five minutes until the swapping finally stops. You could (for example) run "vmstat 1" in a second ssh session on the slow machine to see if it runs out of memory during compilation.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia and i/o problem
Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
I run the compilation without X, and try to acces over ssh. I can
enter in machine, but so slowly.
The system become unresponsive. If I stay the compilation process end,
i can use the system again.
Normally, i've compiled this sources into the night, when off from work.
This machine are new and of course i've tested and don't think that a
hardware problem. But i'll check this more deeper.
Att
I forgot to mention this in my other post. Do you have this in your
make.conf:
PORTAGE_NICENESS=5
PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"
I think you have to enable ionice in the kernel for it to work.
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia and i/o problem
Em 25-11-2010 19:14, walt escreveu: > On 11/25/2010 06:55 AM, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: > > ... >> i try to compile some "nice" software like chromium, pyside or >> openoffice my > > system "freeze". I can't do anything like use keyboard, mouse or > switch betwenn > > windows. How can i find the motive to this strange (???) > > Does the freeze always happen in the same place while compiling those > packages? > > If not, I would suspect hardware problems, e.g. overheating due to > poor ventilation > of the CPU, or memory chips that are going bad. > > When I have random malfunctions like you describe, I open the computer > case and spray > the dust off of everything using compressed air. If that doesn't fix > the problem I > run memtest86 overnight to find failing memory chips. > > One of those two steps usually fixes the problem for me. > > Also, you could rule out bugs in the nvidia driver by trying to > compile chromium > or openoffice from a console terminal (i.e. while X is not running). > > > I run the compilation without X, and try to acces over ssh. I can enter in machine, but so slowly. The system become unresponsive. If I stay the compilation process end, i can use the system again. Normally, i've compiled this sources into the night, when off from work. This machine are new and of course i've tested and don't think that a hardware problem. But i'll check this more deeper. Att signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia and i/o problem
On 11/25/2010 06:55 AM, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: > ... i try to compile some "nice" software like chromium, pyside or openoffice my > system "freeze". I can't do anything like use keyboard, mouse or switch betwenn > windows. How can i find the motive to this strange (???) Does the freeze always happen in the same place while compiling those packages? If not, I would suspect hardware problems, e.g. overheating due to poor ventilation of the CPU, or memory chips that are going bad. When I have random malfunctions like you describe, I open the computer case and spray the dust off of everything using compressed air. If that doesn't fix the problem I run memtest86 overnight to find failing memory chips. One of those two steps usually fixes the problem for me. Also, you could rule out bugs in the nvidia driver by trying to compile chromium or openoffice from a console terminal (i.e. while X is not running).
