On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:16 PM, William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 17:20 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:41 PM, William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> > Re the discussion on cgroups on the 24/25 november - on my old AMD >> > barton 2500+ desktop - in the past a load of anything more than 5 made >> > it very painful to use. Add in running windows in a qemu vm at the same >> > time (all in 1.5G ram) and its almost unusable as an interactive >> > desktop. >> > >> > Now, with Florians (thanks for the scripts) version of using it on >> > gentoo, even at a load in excess of 12, its almost as good as with no >> > load for desktop operations! >> > >> > To get the high load I am compiling a new kernel, running win2k in qemu, >> > emerging latest updates, browsing the web and reading email in >> > evolution, running updatedb and other cron jobs (just restarted after a >> > tuxonice hibernate so everything is triggering at once!). >> > >> > Really, really, really neat! >> > BillK >> >> Very cool indeed. >> >> Which kernel did you choose? ck-sources? Something else? >> >> Cheers, >> Mark >> > > gentoo-sources 2.6.34, just finished compiling 2.6.36 (all manually > configured) > > BillK
If you're up for it maybe try putting doing a Gentoo Wiki page. Sounds like it's working pretty well. I'd like to try it but I don't have much time to focus on digging out the info. Congrats! -Mark
