Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 May 2009 14:34:23 +0530 | Subject | Re: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy | From | Satish Eerpini <> |
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> High iowait during a file copy with no other activity is entirely normal. If > you have a core that has nothing to do but wait for IO to complete, you'll > get iowait time. This isn't indicating a problem.
then the responsiveness seemed to be better with Wu Fengguang's patches applied, or when I decreased the swappiness by decreasing the value in /proc/sys/vm/swappiness . So I think I will stick with that, and thanks everyone for the help.
thanks Satish -- http://satish.playdrupal.com
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