linux-kernel - Re: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy

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Message-ID: <93655eb70905170204k3b39b090u3413b8d00d225ca6@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 17 May 2009 14:34:23 +0530
From:	Satish Eerpini <eerpini@...il.com>
To:	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>
Cc:	Mark Knecht <markknecht@...il.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy

> High iowait during a file copy with no other activity is entirely normal. If
> you have a core that has nothing to do but wait for IO to complete, you'll
> get iowait time. This isn't indicating a problem.

then the responsiveness seemed to be better with Wu Fengguang's
patches applied, or when I decreased the swappiness by decreasing the
value in /proc/sys/vm/swappiness . So I think I will stick with that,
and thanks everyone for the help.


thanks
Satish
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