Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:25:18 -0500 | From | Shawn Starr <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.4.x and 2.4.1-preX - Higher latency then 2.2.xkernels? |
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Sure, but Im not sure what to test ;) If you've got any special patches for 2.4 lemme know and I'll apply them I've got all night heh
Shawn.
Chris Mason wrote:
> On Saturday, January 20, 2001 02:59:24 PM -0500 Gregory Maxwell > <greg@linuxpower.cx> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:50:16PM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > >> It just seems that since using 2.4 ive noticed my poor Pentium 200Mhz > >> slow down whether being in X or otherwise. It just seems that the system > >> is sluggish. > >> > >> I am using the new ReiserFS filesystem and I do know its still in heavy > >> development perhaps my latency is due to this (?) > > > > Reiserfs uses much more complex data structures then ext2 (trees..). I > > don't think that latency has ever been a design criteria and all of the > > benchmarks they use are pretty much pure throughput tests. > > > > So it wouldn't be really surprising if reiserfs had very bad latency. You > > should apply the timepegs patch and profile your kernel latency to see > > where it's coming from. > > I'm actually very interested in fixing any latency problems. If you do > these tests, please send the results along. > > -chris > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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