On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/14/2010 02:21 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Konstantin Svist<fry.kun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> For some reason, while running HDD-intensive tasks (e.g. svn update on >>> a large tree), system becomes extremely unresponsive. >>> And I don't mean tasks that require any disk access - I'm trying to type >>> inside an ssh session in a terminal, and the remote machine is getting >>> my keystrokes after a pretty long delay. >>> >>> Just now, composing this email, thunderbird got stuck at the previous >>> sentence for a second while it was downloading new messages. >>> >>> What's going on?? >> Supposedly there are kernel scheduler fixes in to fix that problem. >> >> For now, try to reduce your swapping. Are you using RAID? >> > > No, I'm on a laptop with 1 drive and I'm not using swap at all (because > all my programs fit just fine in the 2GB of physical RAM) Does `free` agree with your lack of swap use? Either way, slow IO currently adversely affects GUI performance. There are supposedly fixes on the way to try to resolve that. -- Fedora 13 (www.pembo13.com) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
