Re: 2.6.36 io bring the system to its knees

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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