On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:10:15AM +0100, Peter Kirk wrote: > > im not yet on demolition course, since I like my fresh install of gentoo very > much, and since I spent a lot of time to get it this way. That may be, but I've done many new installs of various distros, and sometimes it's very clear that something is missing or not installed properly. And the only solution is formating the drive and starting over. Don't know about gentoo, but I do know it's fairly common occurence with both mandrake and susi. And if you're seeing mouse or keyboard sloth when doing a compile, something is very seriously wrong. It's not a matter of setting priorities -- or at least in 14 years of running *nix systems, I've never seen that happen. I just got done compiling a new kernel on a a 266 box with gnome running with 8 mozilla windows running, 5 xterms, opera with 5 windows, and openoffice with two sessions -- and didn't notice the any slowness during the compile. Well, of course, it would have run the compile faster if I didn't have all the rest going, but everything was perfectly usable. I'd format the drive and start over. You've got a whole lot more wrong than just a little tuning will take care of. So, please get me > some constructive stuff to try out, and I will greatly appreciate it and try > it =). BTW: I dont realy think the CPU makes a big difference, theres > something about priorities wrong (my mouse movement is not as important as > compiling, or as HD access, or as something else, so it seems to me). I > already tried reniceing X to -10 or something, but that didnt change the > behavior of my mousepointer :(. > > Still in need of help... > Peter > -- > If you are not for yourself, who will be for you? > If you are for yourself, then what are you? > If not now, when? -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
