From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:17:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:17:12 -0500 Received: from femail2.rdc1.on.home.com ([24.2.9.89]:12420 "EHLO femail2.rdc1.on.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:17:06 -0500 Message-ID: <3A69F220.B16F2B1C@Home.net> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:16:32 -0500 From: Shawn Starr Organization: Visualnet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-pre9 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gregory Maxwell CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.x and 2.4.1-preX - Higher latency then 2.2.x kernels? In-Reply-To: <3A69EBF8.B35A3B80@Home.net> <20010120145924.A22169@xi.linuxpower.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Where can i get the patch? I can apply it right now. Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:50:16PM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > > It just seems that since using 2.4 ive noticed my poor Pentium 200Mhz > > slow down whether being in X or otherwise. It just seems that the system > > is sluggish. > > > > I am using the new ReiserFS filesystem and I do know its still in heavy > > development perhaps my latency is due to this (?) > > Reiserfs uses much more complex data structures then ext2 (trees..). I don't > think that latency has ever been a design criteria and all of the benchmarks > they use are pretty much pure throughput tests. > > So it wouldn't be really surprising if reiserfs had very bad latency. You > should apply the timepegs patch and profile your kernel latency to see where > it's coming from. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/