Re: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 17 May 2009 10:00:28 +0530
Satish Eerpini <eerpini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I've prepared a rolled up patch for you, run time tested. ÂIt should
> > protect all of the above pages from being evicted by large file
> > copies.
> >
> > The attached patch is for 2.6.29.
> 
> I applied the patch , but the number don seem to show much difference
> , following are the statistics with the patched kernel, could
> something else be causing the huge iowait,  :
> 


for i in `pidof kjournald` ; do ionice -c1 -p $i ; done

is another thing to try to fix the responsiveness...

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