Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:17:51 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Adrian Bunk <> | | Subject | Re: heavy Disk I/O and system stops reacting for seconds |
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On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> Hi there, > > I think someone else notices this too, but anyway, i write down my > experiences. > > I've tested 2.4.19rc[1|2|3], AC tree, AA tree, jam tree and mjc tree > All of them shows up the same behaviour. If i do some disk i/o, f.e.: > > tar xzpf linux-2.4.18.tar.gz; rm -rf linux-2.4.18 > > the system stopps reacting while untar/ungzipping the file for more than 5 > seconds. Nothing but the mouse reacts. This does NOT occur with 2.4.18 and > early 2.4.19-pre's ... >...
I've seen this the first time four months ago - at that time the problem was only present in the -ac kernels (but now it's also present in the -pre kernels). My report is at [1]. It seems to be a problem that affects only the handling of keyboard events. Quoting from what I wrote at [1]:
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I tried to start Gimp from the fvwm menu after I typed a letter - and Gimp has completed its startup before the letter arrived in the xterm.
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cu Adrian
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101705972802903&w=2
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