Messages in this thread | | | From | (Bob_Tracy) | Subject | Re: disk caching (was Re: 2.1.89 broken?) | Date | Tue, 10 Mar 1998 06:16:29 -0600 (CST) |
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Nicholas J. Leon wrote: > # > It works for me on my 233MMX, however it seems to be far less > # > efficient than prior kernels when it comes to memory handling. It doesn't > # > seem to want to give up much memory from the disk cache, prefering to > # Yeah, I've noticed that everything seems to completetly stop when it's > # swapping, interactive performance is worse when swapping it seems. > > And I discovered today that doing a > > find /usr/src/linux -type f -exec grep -il 'entered promis' {} \; > > totally destroyed interactive performance, even when trying to kill the > process (it took well over 15 seconds to respond to my ^Z).
Confirmed :-(. My scenario was/is (as I'm typing this) performing a full backup to tape while trying to edit an e-mail message. I've never seen my 6x86L/P200 crawl like this :-(. The tape and disk subsystems are both SCSI, running off a Mylex/Buslogic PCI SCSI controller.
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