Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:55:51 -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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Andrew, the patch HAS made a difference. For example, while untaring glibc-2.2.1.tar.gz the system was not sluggish (mouse movements in X) etc.
Seems to be a go for latency improvements on this system.
Shawn Starr wrote:
> Applying now. > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Shawn, > > > > I've pretty much completed the low-latency patch against reiserfs. > > It seems to be a little more latency-prone than ext2, but under normal > > workloads it's not significant. The worst-case is 100 milliseconds, > > but that's when you're doing insane things to it. > > > > You may care to apply http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/2.4.1-pre10-low-latency.patch > > against 2.4.1-pre10 and see if it "feels" different. I'd be surprised > > if it does, but the result would be interresting. > > > > Note that the low-latency capability must be enabled under the > > "Processor type and features" menu, and if you also enable the > > low-latency sysctl option, you'll need to > > > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/lowlatency > > > > to make it happen. Creature feep :)
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