From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261606AbTLCW2q (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:28:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262038AbTLCW2q (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:28:46 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:27915 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261606AbTLCW2m (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:28:42 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: XFS for 2.4 Date: 3 Dec 2003 22:17:32 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <20031202002347.GD621@frodo> <200312032117.QAA20238@gatekeeper.tmr.com> <20031203214819.GD11065@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1070489852 20613 192.168.12.62 (3 Dec 2003 22:17:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <20031203214819.GD11065@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>, Joel Becker wrote: | Just another datapoint. On my 300MHz PII laptop, ls and tab | completion often hang, taking up 100% CPU on -test11. 2.4.19-pre3-ac2, | my 2.4 kernel, doesn't even blip the CPU. That's funny! I'm running 2.4.19-pre2-ac2 plus three patches which solved something I'd have to rethink to describe. But most of my laptops suspend fine with APM and 2.4, and suspend fine with 2.6 and ACPI but never return to life... I realize APM is depreciated with 2.6, so I'm resigned to 2.4 on those machines. | That said, -test11 performs much better than 2.4.2[01], which | used to pause the system entirely for 30 seconds or more. | If there are any knobs I can turn to tweak this, I'm interested. The last time I tried Nick's patches was on test15, there are only so many hours in my day, and my best test machine is slow enough to discourage building a lot of kernels. You might see if his version 15 patches will work on test11, or if test10-mm1 works better for you. Since you're looking for knobs... You might also look at the swappiness (/proc/sys/vm/swappiness) to see if that changes the stuff which bugs you. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.