From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:27:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:27:39 -0400 Received: from hermes.toad.net ([162.33.130.251]:61892 "EHLO hermes.toad.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:27:23 -0400 Message-ID: <3BB2AAA5.CDDD6965@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:27:17 -0400 From: Thomas Hood X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-ac15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.4.9-ac15 painfully sluggish Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I know next to nothing about these VM issues, but here's another data point: 2.4.9-ac15 was painfully sluggish on my ThinkPad 600, Pentium II, 120 MB RAM system just running galeon or compiling a kernel. The disk would begin thrashing and continue doing so for many minutes. Swap usage was reported as zero the whole time. I applied the "2.4.9-ac15-age+launder" patch and things improved dramatically. -- Thomas