Actually, there is this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~darxus/+archive/bfsbfq
That have the BFS scheduler and BFQ I/O scheduler which may also play an interesting role here. I have not tried it yet but I should try it soon. best, Paulo On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Jeff Epstein <jeps...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe that this problem can be alleviated by using Con Kolivas's BFS > scheduler instead of the stock scheduler. There are PPAs on Launchpad > where you can get kernels with the BFS scheduler for Lucid and Karmic. > On my system, it really seems to make the system much more reponsive. I > hope that the Linux kernel team consider including the BFS scheduler as > an option in future kernel releases, and until then I think the Ubuntu > team should consider making a BFS kernel the default for the desktop > version of Ubuntu. > > -- > Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Paulo José da Silva e Silva Professor Associado, Dep. de Ciência da Computação (Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept.) Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil e-mail: pjssi...@ime.usp.br Web: http://www.ime.usp.br/~pjssilva -- Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
