Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:52:36 -0500 | From | war <> | Subject | Re: Is it normal for freezing while... |
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Wow, responsiveness is wonderful with these patches.
Will they make it into 2.4.17, (ie: I've seen the -pre2 changelog, did you incorporate them into -pre2)? Even throughout the entire dd, it remained responsive (mouse/cursor/network/etc).
Attached is the vmstat log during the dd.
Andrew Morton wrote:
> war wrote: > > > > Is it normal for a system to lockup while creating a 3GB test file? > > > > Seems that way. > > It also seems that yesterday I sent you the URL of two patches: > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4/2.4.17-pre1/vm-fixes.patch > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4/2.4.17-pre1/elevator.patch > > and I explicitly asked you to report on the result of applying them? > > If you apply them, you'll find that the problem goes away. If you're > using ext3, you'll get better results if you mount with the `noatime' > option. > > So please - test the patches, report the results. It's how things > work around here. Sometimes :) > > Thanks. > > - [unhandled content-type:application/octet-stream] |  |