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From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Peter Osterlund <peter.osterlund@mailbox.swipnet.se>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.4 sluggish under fork load
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:16:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010428161619.A1062@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104281322070.1159-100000@ppro.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104281322070.1159-100000@ppro.localdomain>; from peter.osterlund@mailbox.swipnet.se on Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 13:52:06 +0200


On 04.28 Peter Osterlund wrote:
> 
> Another thing is that the bash loop "while true ; do /bin/true ; done" is
> not possible to interrupt with ctrl-c.
> 

Just tried that under 2.4.4 on two terminals at the same time and the system
even noticed it. Both cpus were running at about 45%user+55%sys, and was
able to use balsa to read mail (disk access) and both loops stopped
immediatley under Ctrl-C.

-- 
J.A. Magallon                                          #  Let the source
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                              #  be with you, Luke... 

Linux werewolf 2.4.4 #1 SMP Sat Apr 28 11:45:02 CEST 2001 i686


  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-28 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-28 11:52 2.4.4 sluggish under fork load Peter Osterlund
2001-04-28 14:16 ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
2001-04-28 14:26 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-04-28 15:07 ` Rene Puls
2001-04-28 17:10   ` John Kacur
2001-04-28 18:00     ` Peter Osterlund
2001-04-28 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-28 19:14   ` Peter Osterlund
2001-04-28 20:00 ` Harald Dunkel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-29  7:14 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-29  8:04 Adam J. Richter
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104281928080.10759-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-04-29  8:26 ` Peter Osterlund
2001-04-30 17:51   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-30 21:45     ` Peter Osterlund
2001-05-01  2:38     ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-01  5:18       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-01 16:55         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-01 17:33           ` J . A . Magallon
2001-05-01 20:34           ` Alan Cox
2001-05-01  4:18 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-03 14:02 Hubertus Franke

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