* Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 03:30:36PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > Looks mostly VFS to me. Aidar, does killing Picasa make things smoother for you? > > > If so, maybe the VFS scalability patches will help. > > > > Hm, but the VFS scalability patches mostly decrease CPU usage, and does that > > mostly on many-core systems. > > If you have i_mutex contention they are not going to change anything. Yes, that was my point. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>