From: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
To: Matthias Dahl <mlkernel@mortal-soul.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sluggish system responsiveness under higher IO load
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:57:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061014165749.38f59363@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610141639.58374.mlkernel@mortal-soul.de>
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:39:57 +0200
Matthias Dahl <mlkernel@mortal-soul.de> wrote:
> I will give 2.6.19 a test in a few weeks when the dust of all the changes have
> settled a bit. :-)
-rc2 is rock solid here, but if you want to wait...
>
> As my Mike Galbraith suggested, I made some tests with renicing the IO
> intensive applications. This indeed makes a hell of a difference. Currently I
> am renicing everything that causes a lot of disk IO to a nice of 19. Even
> though this doesn't fix it completely, the occasional short hangs have become
> less common.
Renicing to avoid sluggish system with a simple "cp" or untar is at
best a workaround... so I say: go with .19 and see what happens !
:)
--
Paolo Ornati
Linux 2.6.19-rc2 on x86_64
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-14 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-06 10:00 sluggish system responsiveness under higher IO load Matthias Dahl
2006-08-06 10:15 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-06 13:54 ` Matthias Dahl
2006-08-06 19:37 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-08 15:47 ` Matthias Dahl
2006-08-07 13:48 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-08 15:56 ` Matthias Dahl
2006-08-08 17:44 ` Matthias Dahl
2006-08-08 19:02 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-10 12:28 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-11 11:40 ` Matthias Dahl
2006-08-13 16:15 ` Matthias Dahl
2006-10-06 15:58 ` Paolo Ornati
2006-10-08 14:28 ` Christian
2006-10-08 17:05 ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-08 23:50 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-10-09 5:58 ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-14 14:39 ` Matthias Dahl
2006-10-14 14:57 ` Paolo Ornati [this message]
2006-10-14 18:20 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-09-03 11:15 ` Matthias Dahl
2006-09-15 18:17 ` Jens Axboe
2006-09-24 14:32 ` Matthias Dahl
2006-09-24 20:27 ` Mike Galbraith
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