Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27T17:42:21Z

On Tuesday 27 May 2003 19:47, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

Hi Marcelo,

> > A pause is _not_ perfectly fine, even not to some extent. That pause we
> > are discussing about is a pause of the _whole_ machine, not just disk i/o
> > pauses. Mouse stops, keyboard stops, everything stops, who knows wtf.
> Do you also notice them?
I do, people I know do also, numbers of those people only _I_ know are about
~30. I've reported this problem over a year ago while 2.4.19-pre time.

> > That behaviour is absolutely bullshit for desktop users. For serverusage
> > you may not notice it in this dimension (mostly no X so no mouse), but
> > also for a server environment this may be very bad.
> Agreed.
thanks =)

ciao, Marc