Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Mar 1998 18:41:05 +1100 (EST) | From | Marcus Berglund <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.98 broken? |
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On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 owner-linux-kernel-digest@vger.rutgers.edu wrote:
>From: Myrdraal <myrdraal@jackalz.dyn.ml.org> >Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:27:11 -0500 >Subject: Re: 2.1.89 broken? > >On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 02:07:47PM -0500, Scott Lampert wrote: >Hi, >> On 09-Mar-98 Myrdraal wrote: >> > For what it's worth, it's working perfectly on my Cyrix 586/100. >> 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 >> stick stuff in swap first. At least those are my observations watching >> the disk thrash with xosview running. >Yeah, I've noticed that everything seems to completetly stop when it's >swapping, interactive performance is worse when swapping it seems. > -Myrdraal
Here, it seems to want to do alot of buffering, and on my SCSI-1 1Gb drive, which is slow, I run out of memory, and the computer comes to a near halt, this happens on a read or write too/from that particular drive, 2.1.88 never done this.
Might be a stupid question, but is there anyway to force the kernel to flush all buffers? & limit size of buffers?
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