Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:06:07 -0600 (CST) | From | "Jonathan A. Davis" <> | Subject | Re: End user testing of various patches... |
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I have two main machines that I use at home. One is a high-performance monster that seems to handle latency and other issues by brute force alone... ;-) So it's not a subject for current discussion.
However, the other is an old Intel 440BX-based 350 PII machine with 384MB. It's running on two 40GB 7200 U/100 drives using Redhat 7.2+current-patches. During it's most recent life it's alternately sported a Matrox MII, an ATI Rage 128 and most recently an ATI Radeon 7200 for video. Sound is your basic Ensoniq AudioPCI (1371).
All through the 2.4 series this machine has been dogged by very poor interactive performance (mouse, video, etc.), sound skips and the like. I had tried almost every patch/tweak/etc. I could get my hands on without much success. In actual use this machine does some word processing, scanning, and a lot of basic net use, never using enough memory to end up in swap. Typical usage is:
total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 384660 345852 38808 0 31504 201464 -/+ buffers/cache: 112884 271776 Swap: 1048784 7452 1041332
In the process of testing all the patches, etc., I have finally arrived at a set that actually makes this machine feel like a real workstation again. It is currently running:
linux-2.4.17.tar.gz patch-2.4.18-pre3 radeonfb-updatefix.patch (Marcello, can this get into pre-4 PLEASE? :-) 2.4.17-low-latency.patch ide.2.4.16.12102001.patch
Of these, the low-latency and ide patches have made all the difference in the world.
So, to the folks slaving away on these patches and improvements. Your work is not in vain -- it IS making a difference.
With many thanks,
-Jonathan
p.s. Has any considered creating a forum for dealing specifically with kernel patches and testing results? I would have commented on my experiences with 2.4 long before now excepting that I felt rather silly doing "ME TOO" type stuff across l-k -- it has enough traffic already.
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