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Hi |
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This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, |
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Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk |
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access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between Firefox |
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and the kernel causing long pauses, but I've had several different kernel |
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versions running. |
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I also use the ntfs-3g driver for write access to a doze partition, but |
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although the degradation in performance more severe with the ntfs-3g driver, |
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access to the native (ext3) partition also drags the system down for a |
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while. |
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I checked obvious things like whether or not I enable SMP in the kernel. I |
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tried changing the kernel pre-emption from low latency desktop to desktop, |
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but the problem persist. The application that is mostly involved when I get |
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these long delays is FireFox, VMWare and emerge (emerge --sync). Everything |
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is compiled 64bit but I have the 32bit emulation libs. |
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Can anyone point me into some direction? |
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Regards |
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Dirk |
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