Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754486AbZIUXhR (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:37:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754431AbZIUXhP (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:37:15 -0400 Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com ([207.210.242.212]:4718 "EHLO eagle.jhcloos.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754385AbZIUXhO (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:37:14 -0400 From: James Cloos To: Nikos Chantziaras Cc: lkml , Ulrich Lukas , Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: Poor desktop responsiveness with background I/O-operations In-Reply-To: <4AB8027A.1040600@arcor.de> (Nikos Chantziaras's message of "Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:47:22 +0300") References: <4AB59CBB.8090907@datenparkplatz.de> <20090920080728.73bfe2a1@infradead.org> <4AB5ECD0.7010903@datenparkplatz.de> <1253475521.9224.43.camel@marge.simson.net> <4AB6C73C.1030004@gmail.com> <1253507034.23414.90.camel@marge.simson.net> <4AB72FDC.5090403@datenparkplatz.de> <1253520364.25640.57.camel@marge.simson.net> <4AB8027A.1040600@arcor.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAAI1J REFUOE+lU9ESgCAIg64P1y+ngUdxhl5H8wFbbM0OmUiEhKkCYaZThXCo6KE5sCbA1DDX3genvO4d eBQgEMaM5qy6uWk4SfBYfdu9jvBN9nSVDOKRtwb+I3epboOsOX5pZbJNsBJFvmQQ05YMfieIBnYX FK2N6dOawd97r/e8RjkTLzmMsiVgrAoEugtviCM3v2WzjgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Copyright: Copyright 2009 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:34:50 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 839 Lines: 18 >>>>> "Nikos" == Nikos Chantziaras writes: Nikos> On 09/21/2009 10:47 PM, James Cloos wrote: >> is a great way to trigger the problem. As is using Gentoo's portage >> to install/upgrade anything. Nikos> Fortunately, this is completely (at least here) solved by putting Nikos> those in make.conf: Nikos> PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 Nikos> PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}" I had NICENESS set, but had never noticed that PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND was available. I'll give that a test. Thanks. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/