Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-08 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 08/12/2011 6:18 AM, Robert Miles wrote: On 12/4/2011 4:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Anyway, stoppping the PCA service and setting its start mode to "Manual" does the trick for me. While I was at it I also disabled Superfetch, which drops the memory usage of this svchost to a fraction of wh

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Miles
On 12/4/2011 4:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 4 02:55, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/11/2011 10:47 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Hello, * On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 07:59:58PM -0500 Ryan Johnson wrote: Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 machine causes it to be

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-06 Thread Mike
Hi Andrew, Andrew Schulman wrote: Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 machine causes it to become sluggish or even unresponsive. For example, compiling a large package makes the mouse jumpy, delays keystrokes, adds stutter to my music, and makes task switching pa

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-06 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 > machine causes it to become sluggish or even unresponsive. For example, > compiling a large package makes the mouse jumpy, delays keystrokes, adds > stutter to my music, and makes task switching painfully slow (though, > odd

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 5 17:25, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/4/2011 5:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Anyway, stoppping the PCA service and setting its start mode to "Manual" > >does the trick for me. > > It does the trick for me too. For a long time I've been unable to > build emacs using cygport's default for p

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/4/2011 5:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Anyway, stoppping the PCA service and setting its start mode to "Manual" does the trick for me. It does the trick for me too. For a long time I've been unable to build emacs using cygport's default for parallel make (-j5 because I have 4 cores).

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
Trying again without the verboten 80kB PNG attachment... On 04/12/2011 3:18 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 04/12/2011 2:29 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 02:55:13AM -0500, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/11/2011 10:47 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Hello, * On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 02:55:13AM -0500, Ryan Johnson wrote: >On 25/11/2011 10:47 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: >> Hello, >> >> * On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 07:59:58PM -0500 Ryan Johnson wrote: >> >>> Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 >>> machine causes it to become sl

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 4 02:55, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 25/11/2011 10:47 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > >Hello, > > > >* On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 07:59:58PM -0500 Ryan Johnson wrote: > > > >>Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 > >>machine causes it to become sluggish or even unrespo

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 25/11/2011 10:47 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Hello, * On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 07:59:58PM -0500 Ryan Johnson wrote: Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 machine causes it to become sluggish or even unresponsive. I have seen very similar effects on my Win7-64 b

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-11-25 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 07:59:58PM -0500 Ryan Johnson wrote: > Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 > machine causes it to become sluggish or even unresponsive. I have seen very similar effects on my Win7-64 box. I can force the problem here just be runnin

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-11-24 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 24/11/2011 11:06 PM, Mike wrote: Hi Ryan, Ryan Johnson wrote: Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 machine causes it to become sluggish or even unresponsive. For example, compiling a large package makes the mouse jumpy, delays keystrokes, adds stutter to my mu

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-11-24 Thread Mike
Hi Ryan, Ryan Johnson wrote: Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 machine causes it to become sluggish or even unresponsive. For example, compiling a large package makes the mouse jumpy, delays keystrokes, adds stutter to my music, and makes task switching painful

Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-11-24 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 machine causes it to become sluggish or even unresponsive. For example, compiling a large package makes the mouse jumpy, delays keystrokes, adds stutter to my music, and makes task switching painfully slow (though, odd