From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:35:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:35:48 -0400 Received: from fep04-svc.mail.telepac.pt ([194.65.5.203]:37790 "EHLO fep04-svc.mail.telepac.pt") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:35:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3BAFDAA9.404@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 02:15:21 +0100 From: Paulo da Silva User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.9 performance issue NO MORE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This problem does NOT occur with 2.4.10. ________________________________________ GOOD!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi, I used to listen mp3 files, using mpg123 -b 2048 -z (nice -15, for ex. - sometimes I forget this!), without any interruption, even with an relatively overloaded system! This was one of my arguments when advertising Linux performance. Now I'm getting, from times to times, some interruptions, without any relevant workload. I have noticed that when this happens, the kswapd task is allways on the top of "top" program, CPU sorted. .... Best regards, Paulo da Silva