Re: [arch-general] system slowing down when copying files.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Auguste Pop wrote: > will transparent_hugepage=madvise be saner so that apps that do > benefits from transparent hugepages and explicitly asked for it can > have this feature available? unfortunately, i have no idea whether cp > and mv are using these features. ;-)

Re: [arch-general] system slowing down when copying files.

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > On 08/27/2011 12:42 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: >> >> Hi, >> My system tends to slow down a lot when I copy files to and from a pen >> drive or even from one hard disk to another. Even my mouse cursor >> slows down. The system becomes

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] the storage group

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 17:43, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> I'm refactoring our support for the "storage" group, due to a recent >> bug report about it being incomplete: >> . I thought I'd ask for some >> i

Re: [arch-general] system slowing down when copying files.

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Uli Armbruster < uli.armbrus...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > This happens on my machine as well. The reason is, that the kernel swaps > much more with linux 3.0 than 2.6.39. It moves programs into swap to get > more space in ram for cache, which imo is a really stupi

[arch-general] Removal of jre/jdk and jre6/jdk6 from [community]

Oracle recently decided to remove the DLJ (Operating System Distributor License for Java) from their license on their own proprietary implementation of java [1]. For a good article explaining the situation, please refer to [2]. This means that you will have to use openjdk6 from [community] or get

Re: [arch-general] Keycode kernel patch doesn't change keycodes anymore

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> Up until recently, I used to get the zoom slider on my Microsoft >> Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 working by following the instructions >> in a Gentoo Wiki page [2]. In short, by applying a small patch [3] to >> my custom compiled (ZEN-)ke

Re: [arch-general] Keycode kernel patch doesn't change keycodes anymore

Hi Marcel, On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Marcel Korpel wrote: > As I do not get replies to my forum post [1], I'll try asking this > question here. > > Up until recently, I used to get the zoom slider on my Microsoft > Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 working by following the instructions > in

[arch-general] Keycode kernel patch doesn't change keycodes anymore

Hi all, As I do not get replies to my forum post [1], I'll try asking this question here. Up until recently, I used to get the zoom slider on my Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 working by following the instructions in a Gentoo Wiki page [2]. In short, by applying a small patch [3] to my

Re: [arch-general] system slowing down when copying files.

* Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi [27.08.2011 09:12]: > On 08/27/2011 12:42 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > >Hi, > >My system tends to slow down a lot when I copy files to and from a pen > >drive or even from one hard disk to another. Even my mouse cursor > >slows down. The system becomes almost unusable. I m

Re: [arch-general] system slowing down when copying files.

On 08/27/2011 12:42 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: Hi, My system tends to slow down a lot when I copy files to and from a pen drive or even from one hard disk to another. Even my mouse cursor slows down. The system becomes almost unusable. I more than enough RAM and I am using a tiling window manager

Re: [arch-general] system slowing down when copying files.

Use BFQ or operationally noop. CFQ IO scheduler tends to do this. Even for me. 2011/8/27 Ray Rashif : > On 27 August 2011 12:34, Madhurya Kakati wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Loui Chang wrote: >>> On Sat 27 Aug 2011 09:12 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: Hi, My system tends t