Re: 2.6.x Scheduler, preemption and responsiveness - puzzlement

[bert hubert]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 11:08:06PM +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
> With the 2.6 kernel I expected that my boxes would be responsive under 
> heavy loads such as exacted by updatedb. What I'm finding is that when 
> updatedb and other heavy hitters are running, I'm often unable to switch 
> desktops or start other tasks. I'm currently using 2.6.7-mm1, but this 

Can you run vmstat 1 while this happens? Can you make your .config
available?

Output of dmesg during boot would also be great. Especially check the output
of hdparm /dev/hda - DMA might be off.

Good luck!

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