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

2011-08-28 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Jesse Jaara wrote: > Linux-ck and -pf from aur have it > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Linux-ck&diff=prev&oldid=153833

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

2011-08-28 Thread Jesse Jaara
Linux-ck and -pf from aur have it

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

2011-08-28 Thread Martin
Thanks a lot for the tip. Unfortunately, BFQ isn't available yet in linux 3.0, so noop seems to be the only option for now. On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 04:11:56 -0300, Jari Vetoniemi wrote: BFQ

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

2011-08-28 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Uli Armbruster [27.08.2011 14:34]: > * 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 > > >s

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

2011-08-28 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Qadri [28.08.2011 01:13]: > 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

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

2011-08-27 Thread Jan Steffens
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.

2011-08-27 Thread Auguste Pop
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] system slowing down when copying files.

2011-08-27 Thread Qadri
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

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

2011-08-27 Thread Uli Armbruster
* 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.

2011-08-27 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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.

2011-08-27 Thread Jari Vetoniemi
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

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

2011-08-26 Thread 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 to slow down a lot when I copy files to and from a pen >>> drive or even from one hard disk to another. Even m

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

2011-08-26 Thread Madhurya Kakati
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 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

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

2011-08-26 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 27 Aug 2011 09:12 +0530, 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 tilin