From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263943AbTDWDTk (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:19:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263944AbTDWDTk (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:19:40 -0400 Received: from ca-fulrtn-cuda2-c6a-113.anhmca.adelphia.net ([68.66.9.113]:15775 "EHLO shrike.mirai.cx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263943AbTDWDTj (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:19:39 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA60920.8090800@tmsusa.com> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:31:44 -0700 From: J Sloan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael B Allen Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: What's the deal McNeil? Bad interactive behavior in X w/ RH's 2.4.18 References: <20030422034821.6a57acc0.mba2000@ioplex.com> <200304221006.09601.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <38291.207.172.171.44.1051004102.squirrel@miallen.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael B Allen wrote: >Ok, I searched a little using the Googler at indiana.edu's archives but >nothing jumped up and bit me. I'm not too excited about applying a patch >snarfed out of an e-mail anywat. I'm surprised no one else has not >complained about this enough to the point where you guys don't have a >canned answer with a link. Is this problem not considered important? > Yes, the link is www.redhat.com/errata But yes, for those who like to roll their own, Con's responsiveness patchset is farily well regarded and trusted - you can grab it from kernel.kolivas.org - I've had good results with just the 001, 002 and 003 patches on stock 2.4.20 - > >Does anyone know which RH patch in the 2.4.18-10 RPM adds this elevator >throughput "improvement"? What identifiers would such a patch have in it? > > 2.4.18-10? You want 2.4.18-27.7x - in other words, the current redhat kernel for your release. The patches are all in the kernel srpm for you to view and analyze... BTW If you really want low latency you'll love 2.6 Joe