Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:50:38 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.36 io bring the system to its knees |
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* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 03:30:36PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > Looks mostly VFS to me. Aidar, does killing Picasa make things smoother for you? > > > If so, maybe the VFS scalability patches will help. > > > > Hm, but the VFS scalability patches mostly decrease CPU usage, and does that > > mostly on many-core systems. > > If you have i_mutex contention they are not going to change anything.
Yes, that was my point.
Thanks,
Ingo
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