From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755653AbZEPC2W (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 22:28:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754711AbZEPC2J (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 22:28:09 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f115.google.com ([209.85.222.115]:56348 "EHLO mail-pz0-f115.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754669AbZEPC2I (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 22:28:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qtt3BF6KgntV26DVGWmIVypg0VTxTOsW1NInAqd1OJ4oPhL0HN8WV8gtuGAiVwJ2dh Enj1iJESSiHJjExeixDZz40xJbVi3ceQ9tL+OQdPG0Wuk43rfpgdvZjCtn5ynTuGTzCe xIjWcilrASMFdGE1YE8/z847ot6U4zi9BMyvA= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0905151102y4f144437xa02632effccda72c@mail.gmail.com> References: <93655eb70905151007v5f9bb34aj34be4b65ffeb02a4@mail.gmail.com> <2c0942db0905151102y4f144437xa02632effccda72c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 07:58:09 +0530 Message-ID: <93655eb70905151928l1dfdf9e0k138485c3080010ea@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy From: Satish Eerpini To: Ray Lee Cc: Rik van Riel , linux-kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Which kernel version? If it's something recent, your programs may be > getting swapped out due to a flaw in the latest kernels, where it > accidentally prefers caching file data over mapped pages. If that's > the case, Rik (cc:d) is working on patches to address the issue, and > may appreciate another tester. this may be the reason, I have seen this lag only with kernel > 2.6.28, currently I am running vanilla kernel 2.6.29.1 . Satish -- http://satish.playdrupal.com