Re: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy

[Satish Eerpini]

> High iowait during a file copy with no other activity is entirely normal. If
> you have a core that has nothing to do but wait for IO to complete, you'll
> get iowait time. This isn't indicating a problem.

then the responsiveness seemed to be better with Wu Fengguang's
patches applied, or when I decreased the swappiness by decreasing the
value in /proc/sys/vm/swappiness . So I think I will stick with that,
and thanks everyone for the help.


thanks
Satish
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