Hi, On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Hamish <[email protected]> wrote:
> Angelos wrote: > > > After installing rc1 to a VBox machine, all applications run fine. > > > CPU usage is a bit high on VBox installation too. > Alex: > > Can you take a look at top or ps -A to see what might be eating up > > lots of cpu? I wonder if mysql is running in the background the > > whole time. > > Alex, I ve done that and it is xorg with second being java and third tomcat, after the desktop is loaded. > fyi the problem I was having with that a couple of betas ago I tracked > down to being a VM smp problem. I was telling kvm to give it two cpus, > and dmesg in the VM was showing that linux had a problem with that and > so was treating them like two physical cpus instead of 2 cores of the > same, and using a huge amount of kernel overhead passing data between > the two of them the hard way. Running 'top' showed that 30-50% of the > system load was due to 'wa'iting for the kernel. Going back to one cpu > in the VM setup fixed that problem, but of course made things like bootup > run a little slower. maybe if I told qemu/kvm the cpu type to emulate > (go native) it would be happier? > > when using in a VM (typically tunneled over 'ssh -C') the first things I > do are shut off the compositor (settings->advanced window manger settings) > and set the background image to a solid color. lots less to pipe through > that way. If I knew how to make that version of xfce only show the window > border while moving or resizing I'd do that too. > > Hamish, I will try turning off the compositor and report back on this. > > > FYI, Full iso is built and ready for testing. We might need to comment > > out 1-2 Win/Mac apps on the final build to make sure the ISO isn't too > > big. > > we should run the dpkg query for package size + sort from main.sh to make > sure no big new packages or now-redundant old now didn't get newly stranded > on the disc. (otherwise, what grew from the last full-iso test?) > > > > Mini iso also available at this link (North American server) > > > > http://live.osgeo.org/dev/build > > thanks, > > > Hamish > Cheers, Angelos -- Angelos Tzotsos Remote Sensing Laboratory National Technical University of Athens http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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