On Samstag 05 September 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Samstag, 5. September 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > > > There are lots of people mentioning interactivity problems on their > > > > Linux machines when compared to Windows or OS X. It's not "1 in a > > > > thousand". > > > > > > I second that. My whole system becomes quite unresponsive if I only > > > copy a file of a couple of hundred MBs from an external HDD, say a > > > video of 600 MB. OK, it's only a relatively slow laptop HDD, but that > > > shouldn't happen nonetheless. (Gentoo sources with CFQ as standard IO > > > scheduler). > > > > retry without forced preemption, with Hz=300 and without noticks. Oh, and > > maybe without extX. > > My current values for those are: > Preemptive (Low-Latency Desktop)
and change that to voluntary. > 1000 Hz timer freq change that to 300 > Did you mean tickless system with "noticks"? I have this enabled ATM deactivate that. if that does not help: > And with extX I assume you meant the file systems? I'm aware that ext3 is > not very efficient with large files, but I can't/don't want to use ext4 > yet because I need to access the partition from windows. neither use ext3 nor ext4.
