Re: 2.5.65-mm2

Steven P. Cole
2003-03-19T23:37:49Z

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 17:33, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Steven P. Cole" <elenstev@mesatop.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Summary: using ext3, the simple window shake and scrollbar wiggle tests
> > > were much improved, but really using Evolution left much to be desired.
> >
> > Replying to myself for a followup,
> >
> > I repeated the tests with 2.5.65-mm2 elevator=deadline and the situation
> > was similar to elevator=as. Running dbench on ext3, the response to
> > desktop switches and window wiggles was improved over running dbench on
> > reiserfs, but typing in Evolution was subject to long delays with dbench
> > clients greater than 16.
>
> OK, final question before I get off my butt and find a way to reproduce this:
>
> Does reverting
>
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.65/2.5.65-mm2/broken-out/sched-2.5.64-D3.patch
>
> help?

Sorry, didn't have much time for a lot of testing, but no miracles
occurred. With 5 minutes of testing 2.5.65-mm2 and dbench 24 on ext3
and that patch reverted (first hunk had to be manually fixed), I don't
see any improvement. Still the same long long delays in trying to use
Evolution.

Steven