From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272319AbTGaAEr (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:04:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272363AbTGaAEq (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:04:46 -0400 Received: from galaxy.lunarpages.com ([64.235.234.165]:54984 "EHLO galaxy.lunarpages.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272319AbTGaAEp (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:04:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3F28611F.5080807@genebrew.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:21:51 -0400 From: Rahul Karnik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030706 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Stefano Rivoir , lista1@telia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disk performance degradation References: <20030729182138.76ff2d96.lista1@telia.com> <3F2786E9.9010808@gts.it> <20030730035524.65cfc39a.akpm@osdl.org> <3F27ECFA.5020005@gts.it> <20030730114428.7e629895.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030730114428.7e629895.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - galaxy.lunarpages.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - genebrew.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Stefano Rivoir 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