Jarod Wilson wrote:
dragoran wrote:
> On 8/7/07, *Jarod Wilson* <jwilson(a)redhat.com
> <mailto:jwilson@redhat.com>> wrote:
>
> [...]
> > You can add it and the re-sync generally works if the partition is not
> > too busy, but it tends to be failed out of the array if it is left
> > connected when the partition is very active.
>
> I wonder if the cfs scheduler would help with this any. And/or shutting
> off beagle (which likes to absolutely slaughter the i/o on my
> workstation).
>
>
> cfs is a cpu scheduler we already have a fair io scheduler (cfq ;) )
> but cfq got some improvements too (uses a rbtree now like cfs)
>
Just throwing it out there, because the responsiveness of my desktop
went up like 100x while doing heavy lifting in the background (like a
kernel build) when I 1) upgraded it to a kernel w/cfs and 2) shut off
beagle indexing.
the worst thing you can do is to let beagle index a dir where you build
stuff...
(I still use beagle but I excluded them).