From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261753AbTLDKNd (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 05:13:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261892AbTLDKNd (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 05:13:33 -0500 Received: from smtp2.cwidc.net ([154.33.63.112]:47017 "EHLO smtp2.cwidc.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261753AbTLDKNb (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 05:13:31 -0500 Message-ID: <3FCF08C7.3020100@tequila.co.jp> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 19:13:27 +0900 From: Clemens Schwaighofer Organization: Tequila \ Japan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031121 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willy Tarreau CC: bill davidsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: XFS for 2.4 References: <20031202002347.GD621@frodo> <20031203204518.GA11325@alpha.home.local> <3FCE810F.3050100@tequila.co.jp> <20031204053318.GB16903@alpha.home.local> In-Reply-To: <20031204053318.GB16903@alpha.home.local> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.82.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Willy Tarreau wrote: | On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:34:23AM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: | Production workloads are typically different. Perhaps my 10 xterms produce | the same type of load as 10 persons grepping gigs of logs from memory ? | And perhaps my "ls -ltr" produce the same workload as... someone searching | a recent file with "ls -ltr" well I don't know, I don't use this box full time, but quite a lot, I do a lot of compiling on it. Run Mozilla, etc on it, copy big files, etc, but I never had any serious "lock" problems, where everthing freezes for a second like I have from time to time in 2.4 |>So I don't think the scheduler is bad, I think it is |>great. When I switched to 2.5 the first time on that box it was like |>"WOW", so little swapping and KDE is so smooth ... thats so wow ... | | | I too think it's great and smoother than 2.4. It obviously makes a difference | if you use X (and I don't use these KDE, etc...). But the smoothness was | also brought to 2.4 by patches such as rmap, preempt, variable-hz. All of | them have been merged into 2.6, so we cannot deny that they helped too. well on my working bux I run 2.4.22-ck3 and this has a lot of preempt workstation speedup stuff inside, but it still freezes from time to time if there is a peak in workload. |>But for your problem, it might get better for these kind of things in |>later versions :) | | -test10 was NOK. I'll try test11, and when I've time I'll try Nick's | scheduler too. well test11 is very smooth. I haven't tried Nick scheduler but I might give it a shot, just to see how the "xterm craziness" goes ... :) - -- Clemens Schwaighofer - IT Engineer & System Administration ========================================================== Tequila Japan, 6-17-2 Ginza Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8167, JAPAN Tel: +81-(0)3-3545-7703 Fax: +81-(0)3-3545-7343 http://www.tequila.jp ========================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/zwjGjBz/yQjBxz8RAmJyAJ4jA3q9yqaYxIjI3PT1ueHHwjUeuACeOWdS Lp4cfDBErPBrd0df27xRygY= =ffb4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----