On 27/11/2010, at 10:22pm, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> ... >> Does using the ck-sources kernel reduce the necessity to use ionice? > > To some degree, yes.
Tried this late last week. You chose your words perfectly - there is only some degree of improvement. The machine seems much snappier if I return to an interactive session after leaving it idle for some time, but during DVD rips it is still unresponsive for tens of seconds at a time. It seems like maybe it responds quicker than mainline sources, but it's still so slow that it's both unusable and hard to be sure whether that's the case. Will try cgroups this week, perhaps. Stroller.
