Re: Desktop becomes unresponsive during large file access

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 12/03/08 11:54, Slim Joe wrote:
> On 2008/12/2, Ron wrote:
> > On 12/02/08 04:36, Slim Joe wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > When executing commands or programs  on large files (> 100 MB),
> > > the system becomes unresponsive.
>
> [snip]
>
> > > I suspect this is either a scheduling problem or a module conflict.
> > > Is there some kernel magic or option I need to disable or enable to
> > > make this problem go away? If I remember correctly, I didn't encounter
> > > this problem when I was using PATA drives with DMA enabled.
>
> > How much RAM do you have?  Your disk cache could be getting flushed
> > or RAM pushed to swap, thus requiring "stuff" to be re-read from disk.
>
> About 900 MB (1 GB RAM with some MB's alloted to
> the onboard graphics). Should be good, right?

Depends on what else you're running.  Iceweasel, Icedove, GNOME, 
etc, etc, ad nauseum.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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