loop-6 patch and 2.4.2

loop-6 patch and 2.4.2

[Mohammad A. Haque]

Is anyone else using 2.4.2 patched with loop-6? Does load goto about 1
and stay there even though mounting things via loop seem to work fine?

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Re: loop-6 patch and 2.4.2

[Steven King]

On Friday 23 February 2001 10:50, 	Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> Is anyone else using 2.4.2 patched with loop-6? Does load goto about 1
> and stay there even though mounting things via loop seem to work fine?

  Yes, and with 2 mounts the load avg goes ~2; after umounting, it goes back 
to normal levels.

Re: loop-6 patch and 2.4.2

[Barry K. Nathan]

Steven King wrote:
> On Friday 23 February 2001 10:50, 	Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> > Is anyone else using 2.4.2 patched with loop-6? Does load goto about 1
> > and stay there even though mounting things via loop seem to work fine?
> 
>   Yes, and with 2 mounts the load avg goes ~2; after umounting, it goes back 
> to normal levels.

You can observe with ps that each thread for each mounted loop device
increases the load by 1; here's the output from "ps ax | fgrep loop" on my
Dell Inspiron 5000e:

   13 ?        DW<    0:28 [loop1]
  115 ?        DW<    0:57 [loop0]
  116 ?        DW<    0:58 [loop2]
 2816 pts/4    S      0:00 fgrep loop

Since I have 3 image files mounted, that means my Inspiron 5000e has a load
of 3 when it's idle... ;)

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>