From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73B186B01AC for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 15:56:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C2F95CF.4000308@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:55:59 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 16321] New: os unresponsive during buffered I/O References: <20100702160501.45861821.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4C2F255D.6000908@kernel.dk> <20100703081613.36e1cba8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20100703081613.36e1cba8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On 07/03/2010 06:16 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > My laptop goes absolutely utterly mouse-wont-move comatose for tens of > minutes when it fetchmails 100 emails and 100 spamassassins go berzerk. > It could be either a CPU scheduler thing, or an IO thing, or an evil > combination of both. > Try putting your spamassasins in a cgroup and see. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org