On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 03:27:17PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > I'm testing a page-reclaim-related series on my laptop that is partially > aimed at fixing long stalls when doing metadata-intensive operations on > low memory such as a git checkout. I've been running 3.9-rc2 with the > series applied but found that the interactive performance was awful even > when there was plenty of free memory.
Can you try 3.9-rc4 or later and see if the problem still persists? There were a number of ext4 issues especially around low memory performance which weren't resolved until -rc4. Thanks, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/