Re: [2.6] system is very slow during disk access

Jean-Yves LENHOF
2003-08-07T05:44:26Z

> I have massive problems with linux-2.6.0-test2.
> When some process writes something to disk, it's very hard
> to go on working with the system.
>
>
> Some test-szenario:
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.file
>
>
> While dd is running, xmms skips playing every now and then
> and the mouse is near to be unusable. The Mouse-cursor
> behaves some kind of very lazy and some times it jumps
> from one point on the display to another.
> When I stop disk-access, it works again quite fine.
>
>
> Would be cool, if you could give me some point to start
> for tracking this down.

Maybe this is this one again...

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0307.1/2552.html

Regards,

Jean-Yves