Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:40:50 -0700 | From | Seth Arnold <> | Subject | recent -ac performance thoughts |
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Greetings;
I've tried several -ac kernels recently, and thought I would share my experiences with the list, in the hopes that others may find my experience useful.
I ran 2.4.9-ac16 for roughly ten days, with reasonable performance. However, I could cause my X session to slow down by flipping the mouse across the screen wildly; it would take the X server several seconds of swapping focus among the dozen windows or so before it would settle down the one with the mouse pointer.
I booted 2.4.10-ac10 plus Rik's eatcache patch (located at http://www.surriel.com/patches/ -- it applied to -ac10 cleanly, even though it was for -ac9) about 19 hours ago, and I must say it feels like an improvement. I can no longer reproduce the poor performance in X. Also, my xmms playlist (of 13000 songs) seems to be able to retrieve the id3 tag information off the songs much faster and the scrolling is much smoother -- however, the songs are all over an nfs mount.
Also, the xmms 'analyzer' plays smoothly, with only slight hiccups when dragging around konqueror windows (in an opaque move format) -- previous kernels, 2.4.5-pre2 and 2.4.9-ac16 would often just stop the analyzer entirely.
In any event, I hoped this would be useful information for someone having trouble with the -ac series -- try the eatcache patch and see if your performance improves.
Cheers! :)
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