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On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Dirk Uys <dirkcuys@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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A tool I've always found useful for determining IO hog processes is |
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sys-process/iotop |
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HTH- |
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James |
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