Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

ismail dönmez
2004-07-10T12:01:48Z

cartman@southpark:~$ dmesg | grep sched
Using anticipatory io scheduler

Problem is I rarely do this copy operations like once a week or 2
weeks. Guess there is no scheduler that fits both desktop usage +
these kinds of operations?

Cheers,
ismail

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:26:41 +0200, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 12:55, ismail dönmez wrote:
> > Tested on 2.6.7-bk20, Pentium3 700 mhz, 576 mb RAM
> >
> > I did cp -rf big_folder new_folder . Then opened up a gui ftp client
> > and music in amarok started to skip like for 2-3 seconds.
>
> that somewhat sounds more like a disk IO stall... which IO scheduler are
> you using ?
>
> (I can recommend using CFQ for this)
>
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