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* 2.5.50 responsiveness
@ 2002-12-31 19:11 Andries.Brouwer
  2002-12-31 20:38 ` Samuel Flory
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From: Andries.Brouwer @ 2002-12-31 19:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Fetched Solaris 9 CDROM images yesterday, unpacked, copied, etc.
Manipulating these 600+ MB files totally kills the machine
(with 256 MB memory). Keystrokes are reacted to after half a minute.
It is impossible to use the mouse since the kernel is too slow
to accept mouse packets within its self-imposed timeout, so that
the logs are full of
psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
The clock lost somewhat over 10 minutes.

This is really primitive behaviour.

Andries


[everything vanilla - no settings changed, no hdparm used]

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* Re: 2.5.50 responsiveness
  2002-12-31 19:11 2.5.50 responsiveness Andries.Brouwer
@ 2002-12-31 20:38 ` Samuel Flory
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Samuel Flory @ 2002-12-31 20:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andries.Brouwer; +Cc: linux-kernel

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

>Fetched Solaris 9 CDROM images yesterday, unpacked, copied, etc.
>Manipulating these 600+ MB files totally kills the machine
>(with 256 MB memory). Keystrokes are reacted to after half a minute.
>It is impossible to use the mouse since the kernel is too slow
>to accept mouse packets within its self-imposed timeout, so that
>the logs are full of
>psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
>psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
>psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
>psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
>The clock lost somewhat over 10 minutes.
>
>This is really primitive behaviour.
>
>Andries
>
>
>[everything vanilla - no settings changed, no hdparm used]
>  
>

  Was the cdrom in dma mode?  Does ""hdparm -d 1 /dev/cdrom"  work?  

  How much swap do you have?

-- 
There is no such thing as obsolete hardware.
Merely hardware that other people don't want.
(The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory  <sflory@rackable.com>




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