backport of kernel interactivity patches?

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Hi,

I was wondering if openSUSE kernel devs are going to backport the patches that alleviate interactivity problems when a system is sustaining high disk IO. I don’t know about other openSUSE 11.3 users but my system is barely usable when I do something as simple as a big file copy.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12309

Thanks

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On 2010-08-08 15:06, agnomon wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if openSUSE kernel devs are going to backport the
> patches that alleviate interactivity problems when a system is
> sustaining high disk IO. I don’t know about other openSUSE 11.3 users
> but my system is barely usable when I do something as simple as a big
> file copy.

I think you should ask this in the factory or kernel opensuse mail lists - where there are devs that
can answer.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))

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I don’t know about other openSUSE 11.3 users but my system is barely usable when I do something as simple as a big file copy.

Do you - by any chance - have one of those harddisks with physical 4kB sectors? This could explain the poor performance.