From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:02:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:02:03 -0400 Received: from Prins.externet.hu ([212.40.96.161]:55304 "EHLO prins.externet.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:01:52 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA897CC.5040301@externet.hu> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:04:12 +0200 From: "Forsz 98 Kft." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010815 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.10-pre12 (SMP) + preempt + ext3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! I just wanted to let everyone know that the above combination nicely works. I applied the sysrq.c/nmi.c fix posted by Keith Owen, the preempt patch and the ext3-2.4-0.9.9-2410p4 patch. The last one produced rejects in 5 files. All of them was obvious to fix by hand except the one in vmscan.c which I ignored completely. This patch can be found at: ftp://ftp.externet.hu/pub/people/zboszor/ext3-2.4-0.9.9-2410p12.gz This combination works for 5 hours now. I did not do a very scientific test but this is what I tried: on a 2way PIII/500 384MB memory machine, running the latest Ximian GNOME-1.4 on RH6.2. The kernel is compiled with egcs-1.1.2, since I do not have anything newer on this machine yet. In one gnome-terminal I run "dd if=/dev=hda of=/dev/null". In another, I run a kernel compilation: "make dep clean ; make -j5 bzImage modules". In the meantime, I am browsing with Mozilla-0.9.3 from the above mentioned GNOME release. The Mozilla startup time almost halved. (It is an impression, not a timed fact, though.) I even tried a vmware-2.0.4 session, it works with the last vmware patch for linux-2.4.9. It seems that 2.4.10 will be the Holy Grail. :-) Regards, Zoltan Boszormenyi