Re: Poor desktop responsiveness with background I/O-operations

Jiri Kosina
2009-09-20T20:22:20Z

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Ulrich Lukas wrote:

> Test case:
> - 64-bit dual-core PC, SATA harddrive, plenty of free RAM
> - vanilla Linux 2.6.31, Kubuntu 9.10 packages, all software 64-bit
>
>
> How to reproduce:
> - start KDE/GNOME-session
> - open a terminal window and do as a non-root user:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/john-doe/testfile
> (or dd if=/home/john-doe/big-testfile of=/dev/null)
>
> - a real use scenario would be a daily disk-backup or the
> simple extraction of a tarball containing slightly bigger files
>
>
> Observation:
> - The system becomes _really_ slow as described above; unusable for
> any multimedia tasks.

I guess that switching from CFQ to deadline I/O scheduler improves the
situation, right?

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.