Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:29:14 -0500 | From | Goblin <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test7-vmpatch2 very sluggish on Toshiba laptop |
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On 08/30, Rik van Riel rearranged the electrons to read: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Goblin wrote: > > > I am running Mandrake 7.1, pretty much stock with all the updates. I > > would like to know how I might go about determining why my system is > > incredibly sluggish using new kernels. Stock Mandrake kernels run great. > > > > I guess I wanted to know if there was anyone else having the > > same experience. Specifically, X is where I notice it the most. > > Even Eterm takes forever to scroll a little. No disk activity. > > "No disk activity" indicates that it's probably not VM activity > keeping you back...
Agreed. I have to think it's a coincidence I'm running vmpatch2.
> > All this is probably not enough info, so if anyone can help me at least > > supply enough info to help solve my problem, I'd be in debt to them. > > If you run 'top' or 'vmstat', is there a big difference in output > between what 2.2 and 2.4 tell you?
vmstat look the same, but here's some timings of bunzip'ing the kernel source into a file (notice pagefaults and swaps):
This is under 2.2.16-9mdk: 31.50 user 1.17 system 0:34.68 elapsed 94%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (2413major+1571minor)pagefaults 402swaps
This is under 2.4.0-test7-vmpatch2b: 265.58 user 8.91 system 5:18.06 elapsed 86%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (100major+912minor)pagefaults 0swaps
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