Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262317AbTHTWvb (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:51:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262309AbTHTWvb (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:51:31 -0400 Received: from h234n2fls24o900.bredband.comhem.se ([217.208.132.234]:41453 "EHLO oden.fish.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262293AbTHTWva (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:51:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:51:39 +0200 From: Voluspa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] O17int Message-Id: <20030821005139.6997412a.lista1@comhem.se> Organization: The Foggy One X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 649 Lines: 15 I'm doing a backup now, basically a "cp -a" of all relevant directories on the system, and smoothness _has_ taken a penalty by the starvation work. Scrolling a picturefilled webpage (eg cnn.com) in Opera 6.12 jerks with each disk write, or thereabouts. Load is ca 2.5 to 3. Doing a "dd" from /dev/zero to a large file doesn't affect anything since it's a long steady write. Ah well :-) Mats Johannesson - 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/