On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:41 PM, William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > Re the discussion on cgroups on the 24/25 november - on my old AMD > barton 2500+ desktop - in the past a load of anything more than 5 made > it very painful to use. Add in running windows in a qemu vm at the same > time (all in 1.5G ram) and its almost unusable as an interactive > desktop. > > Now, with Florians (thanks for the scripts) version of using it on > gentoo, even at a load in excess of 12, its almost as good as with no > load for desktop operations! > > To get the high load I am compiling a new kernel, running win2k in qemu, > emerging latest updates, browsing the web and reading email in > evolution, running updatedb and other cron jobs (just restarted after a > tuxonice hibernate so everything is triggering at once!). > > Really, really, really neat! > BillK
Very cool indeed. Which kernel did you choose? ck-sources? Something else? Cheers, Mark
