From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
Ulrich Lukas <stellplatz-nr.13a@datenparkplatz.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Poor desktop responsiveness with background I/O-operations
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:47:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1253519227.25640.42.camel@marge.simson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1253518906.25640.41.camel@marge.simson.net>
On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 09:41 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 09:33 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:25:08 +0200
> > Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > I still occasionally see some largish numbers though, and suspect that
> > > depends on how much cache was evicted.
> >
> > if you run latencytop it'll at least tell you what kind of operating
> > was going on that hit the delay...
>
> One of the really bad ones for evolution is below. It was so bad that I
> had _plenty_ of time to get to a GUI free shell, and poke SysRq-W before
> killing the darn dd.
P.S. evolution is always journal journal and more journal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-21 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-20 3:08 Poor desktop responsiveness with background I/O-operations Ulrich Lukas
2009-09-20 4:11 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-09-20 6:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-20 8:50 ` Ulrich Lukas
2009-09-20 17:17 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-09-20 19:38 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-21 0:22 ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-09-21 4:23 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-21 7:48 ` Ulrich Lukas
2009-09-21 8:06 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-21 19:47 ` James Cloos
2009-09-21 22:47 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-09-21 23:34 ` James Cloos
2009-09-22 7:06 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-22 9:20 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-22 11:22 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-09-22 11:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-22 16:58 ` James Cloos
2009-09-20 17:04 ` Ulrich Lukas
2009-09-20 20:22 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-09-20 22:04 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-21 7:25 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-21 7:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-21 7:41 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-21 7:47 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2009-09-21 2:59 ` Ulrich Lukas
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[not found] ` <dmnMy-8tg-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2009-09-20 18:51 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
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