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From: john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>
To: Alan Cox <laughing@shared-source.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.7-ac10 (subjective comments)
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 23:20:23 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010809232023.B3197@higherplane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010808195133.A22469@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010808195133.A22469@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>

hi,

before 2.4.7-ac6 i could start loading my linux-kernel mailbox (~22000
messages) in mutt and still have new eterms start up fairly quick.
haven't tried -ac10 yet but you didnt mention any vm changes... in fact
i can't see any in that time at all.  might be just subjective of
course, but ....  seems interactivity has gone downhill a bit.

the only change i've made recently is switching from ext2 to ext3 when i
booted -ac9.  could that be the culprit? vmstat shows about the same old
5MB/sec throughput while opening the mailbox as it did on ext2 (and on
previous kernels), so i'm guessing it isn't...

i just opened up a second instance of mutt and loaded the mailbox in it
too.  vmstat says it barely touched the disk at all, and eterms came up
instantly.

-rw-------    1 indigoid indigoid 84718132 Aug  9 22:40 linux-kernel

hardware:
	533 celeron/abit be6-II 
	ibm 40gv 5400rpm disk, using dma, not on ata66 controller
	384mb ram

thanks in advance,

j.

-- 
"Bobby, jiggle Grandpa's rat so it looks alive, please" -- gary larson

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-09 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-08 18:51 Linux 2.4.7-ac10 Alan Cox
2001-08-08 22:43 ` oops running kudzu on Linux 2.4.7-ac10 (RH 7.2beta; gcc 2.96-95) Matt Bernstein
2001-08-08 23:07 ` Linux 2.4.7-ac10 Robert Love
2001-08-09 13:20 ` john slee [this message]
2001-08-09 16:09 ` linux-2.2.19 masquerading and always_defrag Janne Pänkälä
2001-08-09 19:46 ` Linux 2.4.7-ac10 Eirikur Hjartarson
2001-08-09 19:50   ` Alan Cox

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