Re: responsiveness during IO tasks

2011-05-05 Thread Alexander Motin
Alexander Motin wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: >>> Doug Barton wrote: >>> No problem, just let's hunt things down. I'll wait for that larger post. >>> In meantime, if it is related to eventtimers, it would be good to >>> collect more detailed information. You could try to make timer run >>> during

Re: responsiveness during IO tasks

2011-04-28 Thread Alexander Motin
Julian Elischer wrote: >> Doug Barton wrote: >> No problem, just let's hunt things down. I'll wait for that larger post. >> In meantime, if it is related to eventtimers, it would be good to >> collect more detailed information. You could try to make timer run >> during idle (kern.eventtimer.idletic

Re: responsiveness during IO tasks

2011-04-28 Thread Julian Elischer
Doug Barton wrote: No problem, just let's hunt things down. I'll wait for that larger post. In meantime, if it is related to eventtimers, it would be good to collect more detailed information. You could try to make timer run during idle (kern.eventtimer.idletick). You could try to switch timer fro

Re: responsiveness during IO tasks

2011-04-27 Thread Alexander Motin
Doug Barton wrote: > On 04/26/2011 03:37, Alexander Best wrote: >> On Mon Apr 25 11, Steve Wills wrote: >> I've noticed lately that when doing heavy IO, my 9-CURRENT system (Fri >> Apr 15 23:33:46 EDT 2011) is quite unresponsive. I have two ZFS mirrors >> setup and run KDE4. The system has 12GB of

Re: responsiveness during IO tasks

2011-04-27 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/26/2011 03:37, Alexander Best wrote: On Mon Apr 25 11, Steve Wills wrote: Hi, I've noticed lately that when doing heavy IO, my 9-CURRENT system (Fri Apr 15 23:33:46 EDT 2011) is quite unresponsive. I have two ZFS mirrors setup and run KDE4. The system has 12GB of RAM. When I, for example,

Re: responsiveness during IO tasks

2011-04-26 Thread Alexander Best
On Mon Apr 25 11, Steve Wills wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I've noticed lately that when doing heavy IO, my 9-CURRENT system (Fri > Apr 15 23:33:46 EDT 2011) is quite unresponsive. I have two ZFS mirrors > setup and run KDE4. The system has 12GB of RAM. >

responsiveness during IO tasks

2011-04-25 Thread Steve Wills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've noticed lately that when doing heavy IO, my 9-CURRENT system (Fri Apr 15 23:33:46 EDT 2011) is quite unresponsive. I have two ZFS mirrors setup and run KDE4. The system has 12GB of RAM. When I, for example, copy an ISO image from one mirror