Re: [PATCH] updated preempt-kernel

[elko <elko@home.nl>]

On Saturday 20 October 2001 09:27, Robert Love wrote:
> Testers Wanted:
>
> patches to enable a fully preemptible kernel are available at:
> 	http://tech9.net/rml/linux
> for kernels 2.4.10, 2.4.12, 2.4.12-ac3, and 2.4.13-pre5.
>

I just switched from 2.4.10-ac12-preempt to the following:

2.4.12 patched with 2.4.12-ac3, 2.4.12-ac3-vmpatch, 2.4.12-ac3-freeswap,
preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.12-ac3-2 (where is the stats-patch for that last
one?)

Compiling went without problems!

On a 850Mhz CPU with 576Mb Memory;
I did the following, all at the same time, started in this order:

X with KDE 2.1, gkrellm, licq, freeamp, 5* konqueror, kmail,
bonnie++, `du /home|sort -nr|head -100' (11+ Gig of files),
`slocate *|wc -l', `find /|wc -l', make Python and test it
(117 tests went OK1 test failed: test_openpty).

During this period, everything kept very responsive, there were
2 times a little delay would occur when moving a window like crazy,
or scrolling a konqueror page would delay a bit (it's only a 32Mb
card and no accel.), but switching desktops went fine and more
important, freeamp did not skip a single time !!!!

You should see the laugh on my face while I'm typing this ;^)


Any other testing you can think of ??

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