El Viernes, 25 de octubre de 2013 18:26:23 Artem S. Tashkinov escribió: > Oct 25, 2013 05:26:45 PM, david wrote: > >actually, I think the problem is more the impact of the huge write later > >on. > Exactly. And not being able to use applications which show you IO > performance like Midnight Commander. You might prefer to use "cp -a" but I > cannot imagine my life without being able to see the progress of a copying > operation. With the current dirty cache there's no way to understand how > you storage media actually behaves. This is a problem I also have been suffering for a long time. It's not so much how much and when the systems syncs dirty data, but how unreponsive the desktop becomes when it happens (usually, with rsync + large files). Most programs become completely unreponsive, specially if they have a large memory consumption (ie. the browser). I need to pause rsync and wait until the systems writes out all dirty data if I want to do simple things like scrolling or do any action that uses I/O, otherwise I need to wait minutes. I have 16 GB of RAM and excluding the browser (which usually uses about half of a GB) and KDE itself, there are no memory hogs, so it seem like it's something that shouldn't happen. I can understand that I/O operations are laggy when there is some other intensive I/O ongoing, but right now the system becomes completely unreponsive. If I am unlucky and Konsole also becomes unreponsive, I need to switch to a VT (which also takes time). I haven't reported it before in part because I didn't know how to do it, "my browser stalls" is not a very useful description and I didn't know what kind of data I'm supposed to report. -- 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