Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:39:19 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: sluggish 2.2.1 |
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On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Steve Dodd wrote:
> Hi, > > On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 05:38:18AM +1100, Jim Woodward wrote: > > > I noticed this with 2.2.1 - at one stage I through the machine had locked > > solid, but it was just my MRTG cron job running.. mouse under X stopped > > for about 5 or more seconds.. keyboard didnt respond.. > > Hmm, I'm running a kernel build in the background now (2.2.2-pre1) and I'm > sure the interactive response is worse than I would expect - window redraws, > scrolling in mutt in an rxvt, etc. Some way to quantify this sort of thing > would be good, but I've no idea where to even start... > > S.
I have reported some things that might be related. See if the interrupt count for things (like serial) is increasing and increasing, etc., without any reason. There may be a race somewhere. These continuous interrupts do slow things down.
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