On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For some reason, while running HDD-intensive tasks (e.g. svn update on > a large tree), system becomes extremely unresponsive. > And I don't mean tasks that require any disk access - I'm trying to type > inside an ssh session in a terminal, and the remote machine is getting > my keystrokes after a pretty long delay. > > Just now, composing this email, thunderbird got stuck at the previous > sentence for a second while it was downloading new messages. > > What's going on?? Supposedly there are kernel scheduler fixes in to fix that problem. For now, try to reduce your swapping. Are you using RAID? -- Fedora 13 (www.pembo13.com) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines