On Apr 4, 2005 5:49 PM, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 10:55:24 +0200 Jose Gonzalez Gomez > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been experiencing performance problems in my laptop (Acer Aspire > > 1522WLMi). I have the feeling that the problem is related to hard > > drive performance, as whenever I do some I/O intensive task (mainly > > tested compiling Java code) my system performance goes down, and > > switching to any other application takes a lot (hard drive performance > > problem while doing swapping?). I hasn't been able to solve it, > > although I've read doco and tried tweaking the hd peformance with > > hdparm. > > Do you have > - preemption enabled for that kernel (should allow to switch apps faster > when swapping is in progress)
No, I'll try to enable it... > - some logical layers between the hard disk and the swap device (DM, other > block dev abstractions, file system...)? No that I'm aware off, just followed the handbook, so I have a dedicated swap partition. > - enabled a _reasonable_ io scheduler for the kernel? Where can I check that? Any kernel option? > - some memory eaters running (UML, VMware...)? Do you consider several Java virtual machines a memory eater? ;o) If yes then I guess so... I have a JBoss server running, Eclipse, and I use Maven to compile and deploy my Java (J2EE) application > - checked if thermal throttling may cause that? Umm... no, but I didn't think of that as I always noticed disk activity whenever my system slowed down... > > HWH -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
