Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:34:26 -0500 (EST) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16 |
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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
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