Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 May 2009 20:17:11 +0800 | From | Wu Fengguang <> | Subject | Re: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy |
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On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:01:29PM +0800, Satish Eerpini wrote: > > Hmm, how do you define/feel the unresponsiveness? Is it related to > > the currently *running* applications, or opening a *new* application? > > the unresponsiveness is for both the currently running applications > and for opening new applications, here are some pointers : > > --> during normal operation, swtiching between windows( alt+tab) is > simultaneous, while during a file copy it takes around 1 second, which > I think is quite a lag. > --> Opening a simple application like gnome-terminal takes a second or > more for sure when there is a file copy going on. > -->Also a particular window after gaining focus takes a second or so, > to resume what it was doing, .. so if I am copying a file in a session > of gnome-terminal and open another session of gnome-terminal and type > in "clear" it takes around 2 seconds before the screen is cleared on > the second session,
The clear command can be a big clue. Can you try these commands in the terminal and show us the two log files?
strace -o all.log -T clear strace -o sum.log -c clear
> this is the case with almost every application and worser with big > ones like firefox and office. This was the kind of unresponsiveness I > was talking about. > > Cheers > Satish > -- > http://satish.playdrupal.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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