Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:23:56 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: if this is a stupid q... Message-ID: <20100222202356.GA27834@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20100222064357.GM70798@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20100222055703.GA15202@thought.org> <20100222064357.GM70798@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:43:58AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 21), Gary Kline said: > > Excuse me, butthis IS a stupid question. I've tried to figure it out > > logically and by experimentation; just want to see if my findings jib with > > the unix wizards onlist. > > > > Now/then i do a portupgrade; I probably should just cron this, but it has > > given me problems before, so I do it while I can monitor the run. > > > > I'll do > > > > # portupgrade -akOPv > > > > then go ahead and work on other things. Question is What do I renice the > > run at [ruby] to set it to low at very low-power? I've tried like -17 and > > +17 (or just 17) because I learned that nice'ing the prio level higher > > than 0 was giving it a lower prio. Thus the rest of what I was doing > > could run anmost unaffected. Sometimes I'll be running a vi or two with > > portupgrade the Only other thing running [compiling, usually], and my > > editing is extremely slow. > > Output of vmstat or top during the slowdown might be useful here. If editor > responsiveness is bad, you're either running dozens of cpu-hogging > processes, or running the system so far out of memory that your editor is > being swapped out while you're typing. Certain ports may require a lot of > ram to build (the jdk*/openjdk* ports possibly), but none should launch more > processes than you have CPUs. > Hm. Sometimes ruby is near the top of the list when I check top. Then, sometimes, it vanishes from the top and jumps down the list. AS for cpu-hogging procs, maybe, altho it's hard to see what they might be. I *do* have several instantiations of Konsole running. When i'm upgrading things I try to limit the number of browsers active.... --Things have been behaving for the past day or so... [??] > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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