From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266253AbUGJOJP (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:09:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266254AbUGJOJP (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:09:15 -0400 Received: from ktown.kde.org ([131.246.103.200]:954 "HELO ktown.kde.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266253AbUGJOJO (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:09:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:09:12 +0200 From: Oswald Buddenhagen To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: (att. ismail) [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch Message-ID: <20040710140912.GB13925@ugly.local> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200407101503.58124.roger.larsson@norran.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407101503.58124.roger.larsson@norran.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 03:03:58PM +0200, Roger Larsson wrote: > But it does sound as a io scheduler problem - but 2-3 seconds!? > nothing particularly unusual on my system ... when an updatedb or a 'cvs up' or 'make install' of kde are running i often get hangs of up to 10 seconds (not the sound, though, as xmms with oss output seems less susceptible to this, but "random" other processes freeze hard for that time). and with 2.4 ... errm ... 30 seconds are usual, and 60 seconds are still not exceptional. for the record: i have 1GB of ram, no swap, and reasonably fast disks (and yes, udma is enabled ;). greetings -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.