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From: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Stefano Rivoir <s.rivoir@gts.it>,
	lista1@telia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disk performance degradation
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:21:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F28611F.5080807@genebrew.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030730114428.7e629895.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Stefano Rivoir <s.rivoir@gts.it> wrote:
> 
>>I think I've got it. 2.4 fails to load DRI, so when X is up there is
>> memory available until the load of gnucash, the last operation. 2.6
>> loads dri and probably this eats too much too early, causing the
>> system to touch swap since the first operation after X startup.
> 
> 
> hrm, Why should loading DRI in X consume a significant amount of memory?

Perhaps this is a machine with "shared video memory", like the Intel 
integrated video chipsets (i810). Stefano?

-Rahul
-- 
Rahul Karnik
rahul@genebrew.com


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-31  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-29 16:21 Disk performance degradation Voluspa
2003-07-29 16:50 ` Lou Langholtz
2003-07-30  4:17   ` Voicu Liviu
2003-07-30 21:02   ` Mike Dresser
2003-07-31  8:35     ` Måns Rullgård
2003-07-31 14:00       ` Mike Dresser
2003-07-31 21:15       ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-31 22:17         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-07-30  8:50 ` Stefano Rivoir
2003-07-30 10:55   ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-30 16:06     ` Stefano Rivoir
2003-07-30 18:44       ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-31  0:21         ` Rahul Karnik [this message]
2003-07-31  6:59         ` Stefano Rivoir
2003-07-31  7:16           ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-30 11:43 Frederick, Fabian
2003-07-29 12:00 Stefano Rivoir

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