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From: Rene Puls <rpuls@gmx.net>
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 17:07:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010428170709.A410@kianga.local> (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 01:52:06PM +0200

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

	Same thing here.

> A third thing I noticed is that starting a gnome session in redhat 7.0
> takes longer. (It takes more time for the gnome splash screen to
> appear.)

	I had similar problems with Sawfish: Starting a program from
the root menu would take about one or two seconds under 2.4.4.

> Reverting the fork patch makes all these problems go away on my
> machine.

	This patch worked for me as well.

bye,
Rene
 
-- 
Rene Puls <rpuls@gmx.net>                                 0x8652FFE2
http://www.lionking.org/~kianga/                    personal/pgp-key

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-28 15:38 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
2001-04-28 14:26 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-04-28 15:07 ` Rene Puls [this message]
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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