From: Stefano Rivoir <s.rivoir@gts.it>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: lista1@telia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disk performance degradation
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:06:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F27ECFA.5020005@gts.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030730035524.65cfc39a.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Stefano Rivoir <s.rivoir@gts.it> wrote:
>>Thanks for the hint. This seems to make things a little better, but I'm
>>still far away from 2.4 performances. I thought that anticipatory sched
>>could be part of the problem, and booting with elevator=deadline
>>does a little better... but using 2.4 is completely another thing.
>>By the way, -a 512 vs -a 8 is a kernel "change" or an hdpam one?
>
>
> What makes you think it is a disk performance problem at all? All we know
> is that KDE applications take longer to start up, yes?
> How much memory is in that machine? Can you run a `vmstat 1' trace during
> the "slow" operations?
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. This
does not happen anymore disabling DRI in X.
Sorry for wasting your time :(
Thanks.
--
Stefano RIVOIR
GTS Srl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-30 16:06 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 [this message]
2003-07-30 18:44 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-31 0:21 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-31 6:59 ` Stefano Rivoir
2003-07-31 7:16 ` Andrew Morton
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2003-07-30 11:43 Frederick, Fabian
2003-07-29 12:00 Stefano Rivoir
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