Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261520AbVACSwV (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:52:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261679AbVACSwU (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:52:20 -0500 Received: from mail1.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.168]:781 "EHLO mail1.webmaster.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261782AbVACSvx (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:51:53 -0500 From: "David Schwartz" To: Cc: Subject: RE: Main CPU- I/O CPU interaction Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:51:43 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Importance: Normal X-Authenticated-Sender: joelkatz@webmaster.com X-Spam-Processed: mail1.webmaster.com, Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:27:45 -0800 (not processed: message from trusted or authenticated source) X-MDRemoteIP: 206.171.168.138 X-Return-Path: davids@webmaster.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: davids@webmaster.com X-MDAV-Processed: mail1.webmaster.com, Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:27:46 -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 573 Lines: 18 > from doing the low level I/O operations. However, if i am editing and > updating a big size file and i want to save > it afterwards, i notice my PC getting blocked while saving the > file which > theoritically should NOT happen as it is up to the I/O device > processor and What does "PC getting blocked" mean? DS - 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/