Hi This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between Firefox and the kernel causing long pauses, but I've had several different kernel versions running.
I also use the ntfs-3g driver for write access to a doze partition, but although the degradation in performance more severe with the ntfs-3g driver, access to the native (ext3) partition also drags the system down for a while. I checked obvious things like whether or not I enable SMP in the kernel. I tried changing the kernel pre-emption from low latency desktop to desktop, but the problem persist. The application that is mostly involved when I get these long delays is FireFox, VMWare and emerge (emerge --sync). Everything is compiled 64bit but I have the 32bit emulation libs. Can anyone point me into some direction? Regards Dirk
