On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:35:44PM +0200, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> On the last episode (Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:38:06 -0800), Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com> said:
> > 
> > >  I dropped the IDE disk and replace it with "Symbios Logic
> > >  53c875"/"SEAGATE ST336706LW" - because I was told IDE on U10 sucks.
> > >  Indeed, the machine seems to stay UP a bit more longer.
> > >
> > > > I'll try running a 2.0.x kernel on my U10 soon and see if I can reproduce it.
> > > 
> > >  Another point, is I seem to have the problem ** only ** when compiling
> > >  src/pkgsrc (from local disk or NFS). If I leave my U10 alone (aka, just do
> > >  nothing but having it UP), it seems she doesn't freeze. It really looks
> > >  like compiling thing is what she dis-like.
> > 
> > hmm, that workload uses a lot of the kernel, it'll be useful to narrow that
> > down somehow.
> > 
> 
>  I wonder if I can somehow limit CPU usage when compiling.
>  I mean, like ALTQ on network flow, maybe I could say pkgsrc, make or else "don't use mode that 50% CPU"
>  or "slow down so that load avg don't go up to 0.7".
>  Not ure it makes sense though :)
> 
>  Maybe "nice -n 20 make package clean" ?

Yes, nice should worlk. This is what the bulk build script does.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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