Re: System unresponsitive when copying HD/HD

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 11:15:30 EST

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, LA Walsh wrote:

> I've noticed less responsive disk response on 2.4.0 vs. 2.2.17.
> For example -- I run vmware and suspend it frequently when I'm
> not using it. One of them requires a 158Mb save file. Before,
> I could suspend that one, then start another which reads in a
> smaller 50M save file. The smaller one would come up while the
> other was still saving. As of 2.4, the smaller one doesn't come
> up -- I can't even do an 'ls' until the big save finishes.

[snip]

This could be related with (from the linux-mm bugzilla):

  http://distro.conectiva.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1178

I have a patch against 2.4.1 and 2.4.1-ac which {c,sh}ould
fix this bug, but I don't know if it will fix your situation.
If your problem still happens with this patch, let me know and
I'll see how I can fix it:

  http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.1-vmpatch

regards,

Rik 

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Virtual memory is like a game you can't win;
However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose...

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