Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre5

Tom Holroyd
2002-04-05T04:13:59Z

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> Could you please try to reproduce with 2.4.19-pre4 ?

OK, I could, so I searched back and -pre1 was OK. This behavior
showed up in -pre2. It seems to be related to the mm changes.
Unfortunately I don't know how to back those out safely to check that.

To repeat, I set up a window that has to be redrawn (no backing
store), then use ee (electric eyes) to scroll through 50 or so JPGs
then go back to redraw the aforementioned window. In -pre2 I get 5
sec freezes and no disk IO during the interval, so it seems like a
memory management thing.

Any tests I could do? A -pre2 patch without the mm changes?

> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Tom Holroyd wrote:
>
> > AlphaPC 264DP 666 MHz (Tsunami, UP)
> > 1GB RAM
> > gcc version 3.0.3
> > ... a window that should
> > refresh (no backing store) right away causes long (2~5 sec) freezes.