drm i915 hangs on heavy io load

[Norbert Preining]

On Mo, 29 Okt 2012, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> Hi Norbert. In addition to the above, if this truly appears to be
> related to i/o, can we try to decrease the time to failure with some

I am *not* sure. As I said, the last thing was shotwell photo
editing. It might be some io while loading the photos, but
after that they are in the cache, and the only thing is done is
lots of displaying.

> serious i/o tests? Off the top of my head I am not sure what's

Anyway, that is my idea. I think I don't need google. A simple
	svn up
on my 15Gb svn repository creates enough io. And doing some git pull
or so on same sized repositories in parallel brings anyway the
laptop to its knees (actually, badly to its knees).

Best wishes

Norbert
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