From: Christian <christiand59@web.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sluggish system responsiveness under higher IO load
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 16:28:54 +0200
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Am Freitag, 6. Oktober 2006 17:58 schrieb Paolo Ornati:
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:15:12 +0200
>
> Matthias Dahl <mlkernel@mortal-soul.de> 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.


Which change in the new kernel has made it better? I was following the lkml 
very close and didn't see any change that could have fixed that problem.

- Christian
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