Messages in this thread | | | From | Marc-Christian Petersen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] O3int interactivity for 2.5.74-mm2 | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:12:40 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 08 July 2003 02:31, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
Hi Zwane,
> > - An Xterm needs ~30 seconds to open up while "make -j16 bzImage modules" > > - An Xterm needs ~15 seconds to open up while "make -j8 bzImage modules" > > - XMMS does _not_ skip mp3's while above. > How fast is your box? RAM? disks? I'm personally more interested in 1-2 > make -j2 bzImage going - Celeron 1,3GHz - 512MB RAM - 1GB SWAP (2 IDE disks, ~512MB on each disk) - ATA100 Maxtor 60GB HDD - ATA100 Fujitsu 40GB
Now I am running 2.5.74-mm3, xterm needs about 5 seconds to open up, but the whole system is again in a snail mode. XMMS does not skip.
> > - Kmail is almost unusable while above (stops for about 5 secs every > > 15-20 secs). KMail is also very slow while the machine is doing nothing. > > - X runs with nice 0, prio 15 (nice -11 is prio 4, does not make > > difference) > Looking at above load i'm not entirely surprised, but i presume you're > going to name a kernel which can handle that and still complete the builds > withing a sane time frame. For example, my wolk4 tree can handle it very well. 2.4-aa can handle it very well too.
ciao, Marc
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