Mark Knecht writes:
Anything in there show network through-put per process? I've been
looking for a way to monitor what's going to each of my VMs?
net-analyzer/nethogs does that.
Wonko
Michael Mol wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
[about showing which processes use how much swap]
Michael Mol writes:
[...]
sys-process/htop
Huh? I only see the total amount of swap being used, but no entry per
process.
Hit F2, and go
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
SNIP
sys-process/htop
Huh? I only see the total amount of swap being used, but no entry per
process.
Hit F2, and go down to 'columns'. Anything
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
SNIP
sys-process/htop
Huh? I only see the total amount of swap being used,
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
SNIP
Paul Hartman writes:
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin!
[...]
Now, would this be an MPlayer problem, or one of Dolphin?
I wonder if Dolphin is generating thumbnails/preview indexes at the
same time you're
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin!
I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel
with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=1, in mplayer, for a
minute, several times. When I do
On Sat, 12 May 2012 11:41:33 -0400
Norman Invasion invasivenor...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 May 2012 11:05, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Norman Invasion writes:
On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin!
[...]
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
[1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens when you
are Microsoft and you release any old crappy format without consulting
the other experts out there (who will always outnumber you)
Which better
On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
[1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens when
you are Microsoft and you release any old crappy format without
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
[1] .avi files are notorious for this shit. It's what happens
On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Alan McKinnon
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:12:04 -0400
Michael Mol
On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:03:59 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Alan McKinnon
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 May 2012 18:03:59 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:01:07 -0400
Michael Mol
On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin!
I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel
with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=1, in mplayer, for a
minute, several times. When I do this by
Norman Invasion writes:
On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin!
[...]
Apologies: I haven't followed this thread from the beginning,
Which was quite long ago :)
but do you have any advanced power management features
enabled
On 12 May 2012 11:05, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Norman Invasion writes:
On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin!
[...]
Apologies: I haven't followed this thread from the beginning,
Which was quite long ago :)
Dale writes:
Is there a way to find out what is using swap? Maybe something related
to the video is on swap which at times can be slow, certainly slower
than ram.
I have always wondered how to find this out myself.
Me too, so when I had this sudden swap problem for the first time, I
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Dale writes:
Is there a way to find out what is using swap? Maybe something related
to the video is on swap which at times can be slow, certainly slower
than ram.
I have always wondered how to find this out myself.
Michael Mol writes:
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
Dale writes:
Is there a way to find out what is using swap? Maybe something
related to the video is on swap which at times can be slow,
certainly slower than ram.
I have always wondered
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Michael Mol writes:
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
Dale writes:
Is there a way to find out what is using swap? Maybe something
related to the video is on swap which at
Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin!
I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel
with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=1, in mplayer, for a
minute, several times. When I do this by opening the file in Dolphin, I
get about 15 interruptions, some for
Adam Carter wrote:
Is there a way to find out what is using swap? Maybe something related
to the video is on swap which at times can be slow, certainly slower
than ram.
I have always wondered how to find this out myself.
Well the OS uses swap, i dont know if its possible to then tie that
Am 10.05.2012 05:59, schrieb Adam Carter:
There's plenty of swap space available. With 16 G of RAM it should not
be needed, but sometimes my load gets really really high, and when I can
use the system again, there is 2-3 G of swap usage. I haven't found out
yet what this is, it seems to
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Wed, 9 May 2012 21:44:19 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
I guess I could remove anything running on my KDE desktop one by one,
including plasmoids, and see if playback gets better. But not now, I
Paul Hartman writes:
I realize this thread is bigger than an encyclopedia by now, so I
apologize if this has already been suggested. :)
Well, I'm happy for any input on this :) This problem is really annoying.
I'm curious if you look at /proc/interrupts if the disk with I/O
problems is
I wrote:
Mark Knecht writes:
OK, fire up two terminals. In one run top, hit 1 z so you see all
your CPUs and then watch CPU usage. In the second terminal su to root
and run iotop -o. Now, watch for a few minutes and get a feel for
what's going on when video is not running. Then
On Wed, 9 May 2012 21:44:19 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
I guess I could remove anything running on my KDE desktop one by one,
including plasmoids, and see if playback gets better. But not now, I
finally have to actually do some work.
I recently experienced slowdowns and delays with KDE. It
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Wed, 9 May 2012 21:44:19 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
I guess I could remove anything running on my KDE desktop one by one,
including plasmoids, and see if playback gets better. But not now, I
finally have to actually do some work.
I recently experienced
Alex Schuster wrote:
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Wed, 9 May 2012 21:44:19 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
I guess I could remove anything running on my KDE desktop one by one,
including plasmoids, and see if playback gets better. But not now, I
finally have to actually do some work.
I recently
Is there a way to find out what is using swap? Maybe something related
to the video is on swap which at times can be slow, certainly slower
than ram.
I have always wondered how to find this out myself.
Well the OS uses swap, i dont know if its possible to then tie that
directly to a
There's plenty of swap space available. With 16 G of RAM it should not
be needed, but sometimes my load gets really really high, and when I can
use the system again, there is 2-3 G of swap usage. I haven't found out
yet what this is, it seems to happen when emerging things, maybe related
to
Also, there was a thread a good while back with this issue and their fix
was to do a emerge -e world with everything optimized for their CPU and
such. May be worth thinking about at least.
Video playback and CPU optimisations go hand in hand.
One video I have had for a long time, I could
Some while ago, I wrote:
[
mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a
dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M
]
Urs Schutz writes:
Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your
disk...
[...]
I had a bad disk here, which resulted in slow IO, but not
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 14:41:34 schrieb Alex Schuster:
Some while ago, I wrote:
[
mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a
dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M
]
Urs Schutz writes:
Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your
disk...
Am 07.05.2012 18:26, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 14:41:34 schrieb Alex Schuster:
Some while ago, I wrote:
[
mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a
dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M
]
Urs Schutz writes:
Just an idea: Is the
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 18:44:05 schrieb Michael Hampicke:
Maybe changing the kernel io scheduler will help?
# /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt
# /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt
# /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt
nice idea -
nice idea - but that didn't help in the past. Why should it help now?
The question is - why does disk IO make the mouse jerky and delays keyboard
input? That is just idiotic.
It was just an idea, but maybe there's something wrong on the hardware
side? Broken cable, hard drive about to die?
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 19:25:29 schrieb Michael Hampicke:
nice idea - but that didn't help in the past. Why should it help now?
The question is - why does disk IO make the mouse jerky and delays
keyboard
input? That is just idiotic.
It was just an idea, but maybe there's something
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Some while ago, I wrote:
[
mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a
dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M
]
Urs Schutz writes:
Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your
Michael Hampicke writes:
Am 07.05.2012 18:26, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 14:41:34 schrieb Alex Schuster:
Some while ago, I wrote:
[
mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I
do a dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M
]
[...]
But
Alex Schuster wrote:
SNIP
Now this is really annoying. I watch small clips mostly, and can live
with that, and when I want to watch stuff with others, I copy the file to
tmpfs, which seems to help a lot.
But now I found another solution: NOT USING KDE.
When X crashed (trying to make the
Dale writes:
When I first built this rig, I ran into this issue as well. What I did
was tell smplayer, in my case, to cache more of the video. I have mine
set to cache 6Mbs and it plays fine even on HD videos.
I have cache = 131072 and cache-min=20.0 in .mplayer/config. That's
128MB, this
Mark Knecht writes:
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
Some while ago, I wrote:
[
mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I
do a dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M
]
[...]
OK, fire up two terminals. In one run top,
On 7 May 2012, at 21:43, Dale wrote:
...
Also, there was a thread a good while back with this issue and their fix
was to do a emerge -e world with everything optimized for their CPU and
such. May be worth thinking about at least.
I understood that issue as significantly different - in that
On 18 February 2012 05:45, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Walter Dnes writes:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:29:48PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote
Then my hardware broke, and I got new one...
I had ***EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM ON A FRESH INSTALL***. In My case
it was a 4+ year old
James Broadhead writes:
Please try:
~/.mplayer/config
lavdopts=threads=2
# Use 128MiB input cache by default.
cache = 131072
# Prefill 20% of the cache before starting playback.
cache-min = 20.0
Which should eliminate disk IO somewhat
James, thanks for your input. I already
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:04:07 +0100
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
...
Then I tried another video, again with the settings you
suggested, and it stuttered. There were small pauses when
the system did some stuff, and when I did my dd test, the
pauses were as long as five seconds.
Urs Schutz writes:
Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your
disk...
smartctl -t short /dev/sda
and after some minutes
smartctl --all /dev/sda
If all went OK then the status is «PASSED», and you could
try the extended or long tests with smartctl.
I have smartd
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:29:48PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote
Then my hardware broke, and I got new one...
I had ***EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM ON A FRESH INSTALL***. In My case
it was a 4+ year old Dell with onboard Intel GPU that was having
problems playing NHL Gamecenter Live streams at the
Paul Hartman writes:
I wonder if you copy the movie to /dev/shm first (so disk I/O is not
an issue) does it still have problems? At least this can potentially
eliminate disk I/O as the cause if something else weird is going on.
:)
Yes, this helps. As does copying the movie to another
Walter Dnes writes:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:29:48PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote
Then my hardware broke, and I got new one...
I had ***EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM ON A FRESH INSTALL***. In My case
it was a 4+ year old Dell with onboard Intel GPU that was having
problems playing NHL
Hi there!
Strange things are going on here.
I've written here in the past about my performance problems. My dual-core
had trouble playing movies without stuttering when there was I/O. It was
mainly swapping that caused this, and 8 G were not enough for me running
KDE4.
Then my hardware broke,
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Hi there!
Hi back at ya.
How can I find out in such a case which processes are waiting
for I/O? top showed nothing.
iotop is your friend.
I'll write more when I get some time to think
HTH,
Mark
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
I've written here in the past about my performance problems. My dual-core
had trouble playing movies without stuttering when there was I/O. It was
mainly swapping that caused this, and 8 G were not enough for me running
Paul Hartman writes:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
Then my hardware broke, and I got new one, except for the system hard
drive and the PSU. It's an AMD FX-4100 quad-core with 3.6 GHz, 16 G of
RAM. Running gentoo-sources-3.2.1 as kernel. But it
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Paul Hartman writes:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
Then my hardware broke, and I got new one, except for the system hard
drive and the PSU. It's an AMD FX-4100 quad-core
Mark Knecht writes:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
How can I find out in such a case which processes are waiting
for I/O? top showed nothing.
iotop is your friend.
I had called it, but didn't spot the problem there. I don't remember
exactly
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Mark Knecht writes:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
How can I find out in such a case which processes are waiting
for I/O? top showed nothing.
iotop is your friend.
I
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