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Florian reads both lists, so I'm pretty sure this would have been
mentioned somewhere in Mageia-land, but I want to add that I have
experienced extreme delays in firefox and other apps when I run
largely IO-intensive apps with large file buffersizes, and the
workaround in this comment fixes this completely. We should
consider this for our kernels if we haven't already.<br>
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<pre>Am 19.12.2011 10:26, schrieb Franck Bui:
> Hello,
>
> I've noticed a regression on my system which can stall some applications
> (most notably firefox) during very very long time (> 10 mins).
Man, you're my hero, trying to find out what causes this since some months now.
At least two thumbs up! :)
> It's apparently related to transparent huge pages and I found that it
> had already been described by LWN here a month ago:
> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lwn.net/Articles/467328/">http://lwn.net/Articles/467328/</a>.
>
> Unlike what it's stated in the article, the regression is not really
> hard to trigger in my case: just plug a USB stick, copy on it a big
> file, then try to use firefox...
>
> To fix this, simply try to disable THP:
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> echo madvise >/sys/kernel/mm//transparent_hugepage/enabled
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> and firefox should work as expected now.
>
> So, if no one objects, the plan is to simply default the THP stuff to
> "madvise" for desktop flavour where an application has to ask
> explicitly huge page otherwise it will be disabled.
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