Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:02:54 -0500 (EST) | From | "Nicholas J. Leon" <> | Subject | A very bad report re 2.2.0preX |
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First, I apologize for the lack of detailed information, but I really don't know how to obtain it :)
Basically, my complaint is concerning HD access. It seems that the disk buffers get, ummmm, stuck? filled?, with previous accesses so much that when you do something /new/, it takes a VERY long time for it to work[1].
An example:
If I'm just using my machine normally; reading mail, doing some greps, launching xemacs, and I do a "man foobar", it takes at least __15 seconds__ for the man page to appear. This wasn't the case in the 2.1.<130 kernels (certainly not in 2.1.125 which was my previous "stable" experimental release).
Another:
If I'm reading a 1000 message mail folder in Pine, and switch to another folder with ~1000 messages, it takes around 1-2 _MINUTES_ for pine to complete saving the previous folder and open the new one. Again, in 2.1.125 this took at most 30s.
And another:
If I do something highly disk i/o, like "find /", the kernel will allocate SO MUCH space to buffers that it starts to swap out other real programs. This seems really bad to me. After all, aren't the buffers suppose to be allocate from free memory? And besides, with 192MB of ram, I don't see why it would need 150MB of disk buffers anyhoot.
If someone has a series of tests that I could run and return the results, I'm more than willing to do so.
Thanx!
[1] Probably the worst sentance I've ever written. [2] Sysinfo at http://neko.binary9.net/scripts/sysinfo.
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