From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261294AbTFCU7l (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:59:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261322AbTFCU7k (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:59:40 -0400 Received: from aneto.able.es ([212.97.163.22]:17106 "EHLO aneto.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261294AbTFCU6l (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:58:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 23:12:07 +0200 From: "J.A. Magallon" To: Anders Karlsson Cc: Marc-Christian Petersen , Michael Frank , Marcelo Tosatti , Marc Wilson , LKML Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6 Message-ID: <20030603211207.GG3661@werewolf.able.es> References: <20030529052425.GA1566@moonkingdom.net> <200306040030.27640.mflt1@micrologica.com.hk> <200306031859.59197.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <200306031903.06297.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <1054663333.2066.5.camel@tor.trudheim.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <1054663333.2066.5.camel@tor.trudheim.com>; from anders@trudheim.com on Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 20:02:13 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06.03, Anders Karlsson wrote: > Good Evening, > > On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 18:03, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 June 2003 18:59, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > > > > Hi again, > > > > > well, very easy one: > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/largefile bs=16384 count=131072 > > > then use your mouse, your apps, switch between them, use them, _w/o_ > > > pauses, delay, stops or kinda that. If _that_ will work flawlessly for > > > everyone, then it is fixed, if not, it _needs_ to be fixed. > > I forgot to mention. If you have more than 2GB free memory (the above one will > > create a 2GB file), the test is useless. > > > > Have less memory free, so the machine will swap, doesn't matter if the same > > disk or another or whatever! > > Would it count if I said I run 2.4.21-rc6-ac1 and had 768MB RAM, ended > up using about 250MB swap and when I today suspended VMware and closed a > few gnome-terminals, Galeon and Evolution, the mouse cursor would not > move, then jump half way across the screen after a second, then 'stick' > again before doing another jump. > One vote in the opposite sense (I know, nobody uses plain rc6 ???) I am using a -jam kernel (-aa with some additional patches), and I did not notice anything. Dual PII box with 900 Mb, as buffers were filling memory, no stalls. Just a very small (less than half a second) jump in the cursor under gnome when the memory got full, and then smooth again. I use pointer-focus and was rapidly moving the pointer from window to window to change focus and response was ok. Launching an aterm was instant. -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf.able.es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.4.21-rc6-jam1 (gcc 3.2.3 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.2.3-1mdk))