Re: [PATCH] O3int interactivity for 2.5.74-mm2

Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-08T00:28:28Z

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

> On Monday 07 July 2003 12:51, Nick Sanders wrote:
>
> - An Xterm needs ~30 seconds to open up while "make -j16 bzImage modules"
> - An Xterm needs ~15 seconds to open up while "make -j8 bzImage modules"
> - XMMS does _not_ skip mp3's while above.

How fast is your box? RAM? disks? I'm personally more interested in 1-2
make -j2 bzImage going

> - Kmail is almost unusable while above (stops for about 5 secs every 15-20
> secs). KMail is also very slow while the machine is doing nothing.
> - X runs with nice 0, prio 15 (nice -11 is prio 4, does not make difference)

Looking at above load i'm not entirely surprised, but i presume you're
going to name a kernel which can handle that and still complete the builds
withing a sane time frame.

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