From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Wiktor Wodecki <wodecki@gmx.de>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] O17int
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 02:42:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F43A4D9.7040305@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030820162736.GA711@gmx.de>
Wiktor Wodecki wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 01:01:28AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
>
>>Food for the starving masses.
>>
>snip
>
>Sorry, but I still have the starving problem. the more I use O16/O17 the
>more problems I encounter. xterms sometimes wake up after half a second
>for another half a second and falls asleep for a whole second then.
>after that, it's fully interactive. io-load seems to produce the
>problem. a simple tar xf linux-2.6.0-test3.tar seems to halt the system.
>new processes take ages to start. This also happend to me on O16.2.
>Maybe it's because some AS patches are missing in vanilla but are in
>2.6.0-test3-mm?
>
There are no AS patches missing in vanilla. I don't think there are..
none that would change that.
Its unlikely that its an IO problem because its unlikely that your tar
would be evicting anything that X or the xterm depend on. If the
machine is swapping at this time then try setting /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
to 0.
Oh, you could try my cpu scheduler patch a try if you're bored.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-20 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-19 15:01 [PATCH] O17int Con Kolivas
2003-08-19 16:39 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-20 1:23 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-20 9:19 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-19 18:58 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-20 1:19 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-20 8:53 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-20 16:27 ` Wiktor Wodecki
2003-08-20 16:42 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2003-08-20 21:23 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-21 5:26 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-21 7:53 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-21 11:46 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-21 15:14 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-21 22:18 ` Wes Janzen
2003-08-22 0:09 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-22 21:17 ` Wes Janzen
2003-08-22 0:42 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-08-22 5:34 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-22 20:48 ` Wes Janzen
2003-08-21 23:59 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-22 5:11 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-21 5:30 ` Apurva Mehta
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-20 4:55 Voluspa
2003-08-20 8:00 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-20 11:21 ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-20 22:51 Voluspa
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