On Mon 03-04-17 10:39:39, Raymond Jennings wrote: > I'm running gentoo and it's emerging llvm. This I/O heavy process is > causing slowdowns when I attempt interactive stuff, including watching > a youtube video and accessing a chatroom. > > Similar latency is induced during a heavy database application. > > As an end user is there anything I can do to better support > interactive performance? > > And as a potential kernel developer, is there anything I could tweak > in the kernel source to mitigate this behavior? How much memory do you have? What is your /proc/sys/vm/dirty_* setting? What kind of storage do you use? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
