Re: 2.6.36 io bring the system to its knees

[Christoph Hellwig]

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.
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