From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Streaming disk I/O kills file buffering and makes Linux unusable
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:01:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-sound-93544355722182@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-sound-93541443318803@msgid-missing>
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:
>No , have very little swapin/swapouts (only occasionally) when clicking on the
>xterm icon.
As expected.
Incidentally that's exactly the _thing_ you report to be slow just in the
line below. Maybe it's only an unlucky coincidence? ;)
>After this time when I must wait up to 5-6sec from clicking to the icon to the
>actual launch of the xterm.
>Of course this is because the disk is under high load , and loads the
The swapin slowdown things (still more if the disk is under load).
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-08-23 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-23 13:20 Streaming disk I/O kills file buffering and makes Linux unusable Benno Senoner
1999-08-23 17:06 ` Peter Monta
1999-08-23 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
1999-08-23 17:42 ` Peter Monta
1999-08-23 18:06 ` Benno Senoner
1999-08-23 18:32 ` Alan Cox
1999-08-23 18:39 ` Chuck Lever
1999-08-23 19:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-08-23 20:20 ` Benno Senoner
1999-08-23 20:50 ` Benno Senoner
1999-08-23 20:51 ` Benno Senoner
1999-08-23 21:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
1999-08-24 0:48 ` Dave Mielke
1999-08-24 7:37 ` Gerard Roudier
1999-08-24 7:56 ` Gerard Roudier
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