Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:05:08 -0500 | From | Steve Lion <> | Subject | Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16 |
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I'm running 2.4.13-ac7 with preempt patch and ext3 on this box. I don't seem to be encountering any unresponsiveness at all while untar'ing a kernel src. Just some info for you guys.
-Steve * Nicolas Pitre (nico@cam.org) wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > 2.4.16 becomes very unresponsive for 30 seconds or so at a time during > > > large unarchiving of tarballs, like tar -zxf mozilla-src.tar.gz. The > > > file is about 36mb. I run top in one window, run free repeatedly in > > > > This seems to be one of the small as yet unresolved problems with the newer > > VM code in 2.4.16. I've not managed to prove its the VM or the differing > > I/O scheduling rules however. > > FWIW... > > I experienced quite the same unresponsiveness but more in the order of 4-5 > seconds since I started to use ext3 with RH 7.2 (i.e. kernel 2.4.7 based). > I'm currently running 2.4.15-pre7 and the same momentary stalls are there > just like with 2.4.7. It is much more visible when applying large patches to > a kernel source tree as the patch output stops scrolling from time to time > for about 5 secs. I never saw such thing while previously using reiserfs. > I've yet to try reiserfs on a 2.4.16 tree to see if this is actually an ext3 > problem. > > > Nicolas > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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