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From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ulrich Lukas <stellplatz-nr.13a@datenparkplatz.de>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Poor desktop responsiveness with background I/O-operations
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:34:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38wg73m8d.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AB8027A.1040600@arcor.de> (Nikos Chantziaras's message of "Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:47:22 +0300")

>>>>> "Nikos" == Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> writes:

Nikos> On 09/21/2009 10:47 PM, James Cloos wrote:
>> is a great way to trigger the problem.  As is using Gentoo's portage
>> to install/upgrade anything.

Nikos> Fortunately, this is completely (at least here) solved by putting
Nikos> those in make.conf:

Nikos> PORTAGE_NICENESS=19
Nikos> PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"

I had NICENESS set, but had never noticed that PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND
was available.  I'll give that a test.  Thanks.

-JimC
-- 
James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-21 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-20  3:08 Poor desktop responsiveness with background I/O-operations Ulrich Lukas
2009-09-20  4:11 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-09-20  6:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-20  8:50   ` Ulrich Lukas
2009-09-20 17:17     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-09-20 19:38     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-21  0:22       ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-09-21  4:23         ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-21  7:48           ` Ulrich Lukas
2009-09-21  8:06             ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-21 19:47               ` James Cloos
2009-09-21 22:47                 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-09-21 23:34                   ` James Cloos [this message]
2009-09-22  7:06                 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-22  9:20                   ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-22 11:22                     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-09-22 11:32                       ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-22 16:58                   ` James Cloos
2009-09-20 17:04   ` Ulrich Lukas
2009-09-20 20:22 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-09-20 22:04   ` Jan Kara
2009-09-21  7:25     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-21  7:33       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-21  7:41         ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-21  7:47           ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-21  2:59   ` Ulrich Lukas
     [not found] <dmlhK-6ws-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <dmnMy-8tg-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2009-09-20 18:51   ` Sanjoy Mahajan

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