On Monday 08 Sep 2008, PJ wrote: > Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now one of the things I'm facing is a slowdown of the system when > > it's doing disk-write-intensive activities. I believe this is > > because of the huge amount of RAM -- Linux buffers disk writes, and > > when it does start flushing the buffers to disk everything else > > freezes. Firefox, e.g. freezes for up to 20 seconds when the > > writes are in progress. > > Did vmstat suggest lots of page outs at the same time?
Didn't look. Will have to reset the tuning I've done, run recollindex and check. > Did you try lowering swappiness ? Would that help? I doubt if swap is the issue here (all programs fit fine into memory, and there's 2.5G+ of memory available after discounting buffers). IAC, will test again after untuning :) Regards, -- Raju > > PJ > > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
