From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266219AbUGJMBs (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 08:01:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266220AbUGJMBs (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 08:01:48 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.205]:54396 "HELO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266219AbUGJMBp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 08:01:45 -0400 Message-ID: <2a4f155d040710050166e98a7f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:01:42 +0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ismail_d=F6nmez?= To: arjanv@redhat.com Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch Cc: Ingo Molnar , Redeeman , LKML Mailinglist In-Reply-To: <1089458801.2704.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT References: <20040709182638.GA11310@elte.hu> <1089407610.10745.5.camel@localhost> <20040710080234.GA25155@elte.hu> <20040710085044.GA14262@elte.hu> <2a4f155d040710035512f21d34@mail.gmail.com> <1089458801.2704.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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) > > > > -- Time is what you make of it