Im using bfsbfq kernel. Its just a little better than the generic kernel. 2010/3/25 Paulo J. S. Silva <[email protected]>: > Actually, there is this PPA: > > https://launchpad.net/~darxus/+archive/bfsbfq > > That have the BFS scheduler and BFQ I/O scheduler which may also play > an interesting role here. I have not tried it yet but I should try it > soon. > > best, > > Paulo > > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Jeff Epstein <[email protected]> wrote: >> I believe that this problem can be alleviated by using Con Kolivas's BFS >> scheduler instead of the stock scheduler. There are PPAs on Launchpad >> where you can get kernels with the BFS scheduler for Lucid and Karmic. >> On my system, it really seems to make the system much more reponsive. I >> hope that the Linux kernel team consider including the BFS scheduler as >> an option in future kernel releases, and until then I think the Ubuntu >> team should consider making a BFS kernel the default for the desktop >> version of Ubuntu. >> >> -- >> Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094 >> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >> of the bug. >> > > > -- > Paulo José da Silva e Silva > Professor Associado, Dep. de Ciência da Computação > (Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept.) > Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil > > e-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.ime.usp.br/~pjssilva > > -- > Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in The Linux Kernel: Invalid > Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > Status in “linux-source-2.6.22” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.22 > > When compared with 2.6.15 in feisty, heavy disk I/O causes increased iowait > times and affects desktop responsiveness in 2.6.22 > > this appears to be a regression from 2.6.15 where iowait is much lower and > desktop responsiveness is unaffected with the same I/O load > > Easy to reproduce with tracker - index the same set of files with 2.6.15 > kernel and 2.6.22 kernel and the difference in desktop responsiveness is > massive > > I have not confirmed if a non-tracker process which does heavy disk i/o > (especially writing) replicates this yet - will do further investigation soon > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/131094/+subscribe >
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