On Sun September 6 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:[...]
For reference, my system is:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4GHz)
Mainboard: Asus P5E (Intel X38 chipset)
RAM: 6GB (2+2+1+1) dual channel DDR2 800
GPU: RV770 (Radeon HD4870).
My Phenom 9550 (2.2Ghz) whips the pants off my Intel Q6600 (2.6Ghz). I and a
friend of mine both get large amounts of stalling when doing a lot of IO. I
haven't seen such horrible desktop interactivity since before the new
schedulers and the -ck patchset came out for 2.4.x. Its a heck of a lot better
on my AMD Phenom's, but some lag is noticeable these days, even when it wasn't
a few kernel releases ago.