Re: [PATCH] O3int interactivity for 2.5.74-mm2

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:12, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 July 2003 02:31, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
>
> Hi Zwane,
>
> > > - An Xterm needs ~30 seconds to open up while "make -j16 bzImage
> > > modules" - An Xterm needs ~15 seconds to open up while "make -j8
> > > bzImage modules" - XMMS does _not_ skip mp3's while above.
> >
> > How fast is your box? RAM? disks? I'm personally more interested in 1-2
> > make -j2 bzImage going
>
> - Celeron 1,3GHz
> - 512MB RAM
> - 1GB SWAP (2 IDE disks, ~512MB on each disk)
> - ATA100 Maxtor 60GB HDD
> - ATA100 Fujitsu 40GB
>
> Now I am running 2.5.74-mm3, xterm needs about 5 seconds to open up, but
> the whole system is again in a snail mode. XMMS does not skip.

Well this is no different to the O3 patch on mm2 so it's no surprise :)

Con

>
> > > - Kmail is almost unusable while above (stops for about 5 secs every
> > > 15-20 secs). KMail is also very slow while the machine is doing
> > > nothing. - X runs with nice 0, prio 15 (nice -11 is prio 4, does not
> > > make difference)
> >
> > Looking at above load i'm not entirely surprised, but i presume you're
> > going to name a kernel which can handle that and still complete the
> > builds withing a sane time frame.
>
> For example, my wolk4 tree can handle it very well. 2.4-aa can handle it
> very well too.
>
> ciao, Marc