From: war <war@starband.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it normal for freezing while...
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:52:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C087023.9683B8AF@starband.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C085B04.50ABE0B5@starband.net> <3C0867A3.5119D2BC@zip.com.au>
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Wow, responsiveness is wonderful with these patches.
Will they make it into 2.4.17, (ie: I've seen the -pre2 changelog, did
you incorporate them into -pre2)?
Even throughout the entire dd, it remained responsive
(mouse/cursor/network/etc).
Attached is the vmstat log during the dd.
Andrew Morton wrote:
> war wrote:
> >
> > Is it normal for a system to lockup while creating a 3GB test file?
> >
>
> Seems that way.
>
> It also seems that yesterday I sent you the URL of two patches:
>
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4/2.4.17-pre1/vm-fixes.patch
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4/2.4.17-pre1/elevator.patch
>
> and I explicitly asked you to report on the result of applying them?
>
> If you apply them, you'll find that the problem goes away. If you're
> using ext3, you'll get better results if you mount with the `noatime'
> option.
>
> So please - test the patches, report the results. It's how things
> work around here. Sometimes :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> -
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-01 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-01 4:22 Is it normal for freezing while war
2001-12-01 5:16 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-01 5:52 ` war [this message]
2001-12-01 6:16 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-01 8:15 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-01 8:26 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-12-01 9:02 ` Mike Fedyk
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