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
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James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
next prev parent 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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