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silwerspawn
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:17 pm    Post subject: Slow laptop processes priority maybe? Reply with quote

Hey everyone.

I have just updated my gentoo completely, i ran the old 2006.1 distro from gentoo. but now my machine seems a lot slower.
an when i use emerge, i allmost blocks for any other processes.
Is there anyone that have encountered the same? by the way for some reason i cant install the 2007.0 distro, it does not accept my display.
i don't know what information you need right now, post what you need and ill post it.

I have a IBM T43p

Code:
lspci

Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M24GL [Mobility FireGL V3200] (rev 80)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)
0b:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 8d)
0b:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection (rev 05)
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broken_chaos
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try setting PORTAGE_NICENESS in /etc/make.conf to a non-zero, positive value.

Example:
/etc/make.conf:
...

PORTAGE_NICENESS="15"

...


This will give it a lower CPU priority (yes, the higher the non-negative the number, the lower the priority - a little non-intuitive), for emerge and all it's subprocesses. 10-15 is usually a good value for this. It will use all power when possible, but give up CPU cycles when other things need them.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, that helped a lot on the emerge part. but do you anything about optimizing the 2007.0, or any guides for optimizing gentoo?
but Thanks again :D
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found the som SCSI driver that my laptop (IBM T43p) needed so that the dma could run.
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