Re: [gentoo-user] Top values don't add up

2008-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 August 2008 18:35:18 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > When I say "tune" I mean things like picking a resolution and a > deinterlace method for video that is as good as possible, while still > leaving enough headroom to avoid uneven playback. Ah, that puts a different spin on it. Those thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Top values don't add up

2008-08-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 19. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2008 15:30:07 Dale wrote: > > Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > > > << SNIP >> > > > > > > I'm running the machine for multi-media-use, and I would like to make > > > sure that I tune the media-programs to leave sufficcient cpu to ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Top values don't add up

2008-08-19 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2008 15:30:07 Dale wrote: Håkon Alstadheim wrote: << SNIP >> I'm running the machine for multi-media-use, and I would like to make sure that I tune the media-programs to leave sufficcient cpu to handle the odd house-keeping task, while at the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Top values don't add up

2008-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 August 2008 15:30:07 Dale wrote: > Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > > << SNIP >> > > > > I'm running the machine for multi-media-use, and I would like to make > > sure that I tune the media-programs to leave sufficcient cpu to handle > > the odd house-keeping task, while at the same time doi

Re: [gentoo-user] Top values don't add up

2008-08-19 Thread Dale
Håkon Alstadheim wrote: << SNIP >> I'm running the machine for multi-media-use, and I would like to make sure that I tune the media-programs to leave sufficcient cpu to handle the odd house-keeping task, while at the same time doing as much post-processing for image and sound quality as possi

Re: [gentoo-user] Top values don't add up

2008-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 August 2008 15:02:34 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Top reports ~70% idle, while at the same time the topmost couple of > processes are reported as using >70%CPU. Is there anything I could use > that reports more sensible values ? > > I'm running the machine for multi-media-use, and I woul

[gentoo-user] Top values don't add up

2008-08-19 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
If anybody knows a better arena to field this question, please let me know. My system is a single-core old fashioned intel system. uname -a reports: Linux medisin 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 #3 PREEMPT Sun Aug 3 11:40:41 CEST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux # qfile `whi