trying not to sound like a newbie (being using linux for quite some time) but i have never used this niceness thingy. so, i know a bit about priority stuff. 1 is heighest? or is it 10? do i do a nice -(lowest number here) setiathome, yea? actually, found out. ill try that now. right just done it and i cant really see a major improvment, but typing is slightly faster, and my system monitor looks different (the one in gnome. its now all blue, not 80% blue, 20% purple like when it was when running seti @ full wack. though its getting there now. anyway, ill try kernel 2.6. been meaning to for a while now. Thanks for the tips! Lotas
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 01:18, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: > >From a hardware point of view, I'd take a look at that single IDE drive > as your most likely bottleneck. You've got so much processor for so > little disk performace. A few parallel makes pegging your CPUs at 100% > will most likely also be hitting your drive pretty hard. Those 8MB WD > drives, while they show great sequential transfer speeds (read: disk > benchmarks) suffer from slow seeks which will be the thing you'll > notice in desktop responsiveness. I've got a very similar setup but > with some quicker (seek time) Maxtor drives in software RAID5. I'd > suggest that you look into maybe another WD drive in software RAID0 to > bring your disk bandwidth on par with your CPus. > > Before you do that, you may want to look at a 2.6 kernel - my MPX box > seems to have taken quite fondly to the new kernels. I'm currently > using Lovechild's collection of patches and desktop responsiveness is a > great deal better than vanilla 2.6 and anything I tried in 2.4. My box > feels much 'snappier' than with a ck patched 2.4 kernel and it has been > far more stable. The ebuild and patches for love-sources can be found > here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=109557 and there is a > 2.4 to 2.6 migration thread here: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=70838 > > Also, do you have PORTAGE_NICENESS set in /etc/make.conf? Is your seti > client running at idle priority? -- Lotas T Smartman, MCP www.lotas-smartman.net www.the-hairy-one.com www.lsn-blog.tk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
