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Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 06:57:03 +0530
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Subject: Re: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy
From: Satish Eerpini <eerpini@gmail.com>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>,
       Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
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> Yes, better to apply Rik and mine patches together to get the best
> cache behavior. Rik's patch is crucial. They are both small patches,
> so can be backported trivially. Satish, what's your kernel version
> (or, do you want to try a newer kernel)? And the content of
> /proc/meminfo?

I am running 2.6.29.1 right now , just tell me which kernel to try, or
to which kernel I have to apply the patches and try them, I will test
the patches and let you know if the situation improves.
and the contents of /proc/meminfo are :
MemTotal:        2585724 kB
MemFree:          900524 kB
Buffers:          197504 kB
Cached:          1080332 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:           639544 kB
Inactive:         933068 kB
Active(anon):     307100 kB
Inactive(anon):        0 kB
Active(file):     332444 kB
Inactive(file):   933068 kB
Unevictable:          16 kB
Mlocked:              16 kB
HighTotal:       1707848 kB
HighFree:         321868 kB
LowTotal:         877876 kB
LowFree:          578656 kB
SwapTotal:       3526256 kB
SwapFree:        3526256 kB
Dirty:              1000 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:        294788 kB
Mapped:            80084 kB
Slab:              89692 kB
SReclaimable:      71436 kB
SUnreclaim:        18256 kB
PageTables:         6008 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:     4819116 kB
Committed_AS:     796332 kB
VmallocTotal:     122880 kB
VmallocUsed:        8240 kB
VmallocChunk:      96952 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       4096 kB
DirectMap4k:       20472 kB
DirectMap4M:      884736 kB

Cheers
Satish
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