Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:28:57 +0100 | Subject | Re: 1.3.76 and VT switching |
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On 19 Mar 96 at 16:12, Thomas König wrote:
> I just had a rather strange experience with 1.3.76. I had just > connected to a few thousand hosts (using ssh-keyscan) and was > recompiling the kernel, when I wanted to switch virtual terminals. > The system didn't react to this for a few seconds at a time. I could > scroll back in the VT with immediate effect, and pressing Enter also > worked. > > After a few seconds, the switches were indeed done; apparently, > no keystrokes were lost, the system just waited for a few seconds > before doing anything. > > At the time, nothing was in swap; due to the kernel compilation, there > was a rather high disk activity, though.
I noticed that around '71 disk buffers (or call it cached data) go a bit too low sometimes. Then response time can be bad. Maybe there are some tuning measures?
BTW. Wondering about the rising temeratures in spring, I wonder if a code freeze is still possible. Maybe we should try it one more before it gets really hot ;-)
> -- > Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet. > The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double > logarithmic diagram.
Ulrich
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