Re: 2.5.47 scheduler problems?

Mike Galbraith
2002-11-22T14:00:01Z

At 01:51 PM 11/22/2002 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>At 12:07 PM 11/22/2002 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>>At 12:41 AM 11/22/2002 -0500, Jim Houston wrote:
>>
>>>I just gave this a spin with. The patches still apply cleanly
>>>to linux-2.5.48 and it seems well behaved:-)
>>
>>It seems a little choppy still for a not swapping load, but greatly improved.
>>
>>Thanks!
>
>(I put it into virgin 2.5.47 fwiw) I have some very odd behavior. I
>wanted to see how the kernel did at make -j30 bzImage on my test box to
>see what effect it has on throughput (box is 500 Mhz PIII + 128Mb ram),
>and get vmstat output like the attached. I should be roughly 30Mb into
>swap and paging heftily at this point.

Never mind the vmstat output.. it seems you need both patches. With both
in 2.5.48, the build progressed in a much more normal looking fashion. I'm
not losing control of my box any more under load.

-Mike