From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757019AbZEQJaw (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 May 2009 05:30:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757417AbZEQJaS (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 May 2009 05:30:18 -0400 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:48444 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756625AbZEQJaQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 May 2009 05:30:16 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,207,1241420400"; d="scan'208";a="143694537" Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 17:30:04 +0800 From: Wu Fengguang To: Satish Eerpini Cc: Rik van Riel , Ray Lee , Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel Subject: Re: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy Message-ID: <20090517093004.GA2635@localhost> References: <2c0942db0905151102y4f144437xa02632effccda72c@mail.gmail.com> <2c0942db0905160903i5517d3d6l50fc7457a2629694@mail.gmail.com> <4A0EFA08.4060106@redhat.com> <20090517011906.GA6375@localhost> <93655eb70905161827x34a432ebn4910ee86d9bae30@mail.gmail.com> <20090517020829.GB6809@localhost> <93655eb70905162130k13ebd627o5eba2582508a1c07@mail.gmail.com> <20090517045800.GA32723@localhost> <93655eb70905162318oeccafa9p76b5594f9625aefc@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <93655eb70905162318oeccafa9p76b5594f9625aefc@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 02:18:01PM +0800, Satish Eerpini wrote: > > The numbers listed in your email? No the most relevant numbers are > > memory and disk ones. > > the numbers I earlier mentioned were the output of : "sar" > for the number of mapped pages stays almost constant on my lappy too : > Mapped: 70840 kB > Mapped: 70860 kB > Mapped: 70736 kB > Mapped: 70860 kB Hmm, how do you define/feel the unresponsiveness? Is it related to the currently *running* applications, or opening a *new* application? Thanks, Fengguang