From: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.50 responsiveness
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:38:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E120054.2070405@rackable.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: UTC200212311911.gBVJBxe03777.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
>Fetched Solaris 9 CDROM images yesterday, unpacked, copied, etc.
>Manipulating these 600+ MB files totally kills the machine
>(with 256 MB memory). Keystrokes are reacted to after half a minute.
>It is impossible to use the mouse since the kernel is too slow
>to accept mouse packets within its self-imposed timeout, so that
>the logs are full of
>psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
>psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
>psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
>psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
>The clock lost somewhat over 10 minutes.
>
>This is really primitive behaviour.
>
>Andries
>
>
>[everything vanilla - no settings changed, no hdparm used]
>
>
Was the cdrom in dma mode? Does ""hdparm -d 1 /dev/cdrom" work?
How much swap do you have?
--
There is no such thing as obsolete hardware.
Merely hardware that other people don't want.
(The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
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2002-12-31 19:11 2.5.50 responsiveness Andries.Brouwer
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