Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751529AbWJFP6a (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:58:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751536AbWJFP6a (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:58:30 -0400 Received: from aa014msr.fastwebnet.it ([85.18.95.74]:16789 "EHLO aa014msr.fastwebnet.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751529AbWJFP63 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:58:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:58:33 +0200 From: Paolo Ornati To: Matthias Dahl Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sluggish system responsiveness under higher IO load Message-ID: <20061006175833.4ef08f06@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200608131815.12873.mlkernel@mortal-soul.de> References: <200608061200.37701.mlkernel@mortal-soul.de> <20060808190241.GB11829@suse.de> <20060810122853.GS11829@suse.de> <200608131815.12873.mlkernel@mortal-soul.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.0 (GTK+ 2.8.19; x86_64-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: 782 Lines: 22 On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:15:12 +0200 Matthias Dahl wrote: > Just let me know once you got them, so I can safely delete them again. > > At the moment, I am trying without preemption but for example doing a untar > kernel sources still results in sluggish system responsiveness. :-( I used to have this type of problem and 2.6.19-rc1 looks much better than 2.6.18. I'm using CONFIG_PREEMPT + CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL, CFQ i/o scheduler and /proc/sys/vm/swappiness = 20. -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.19-rc1 on x86_64 - 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/