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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:01:15 -0200 (BRDT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> I just tested ac8.
> 
> If I run this test, the system gets really slow.  It takes about
> a second between the time I press a key, and the time it appears
> on the screen.  The load goes way up.  Everything seems to block.

I'm sorry, but ... what test ?
And how do older kernels run the same thing ?

> It ran for serval minutes.  The process itself took about 1
> minutes of CPU time, and so did kswapd.  It took atleast 5
> minutes real time.
> 
> I once did just the same with 2.4.0, it took more like 30
> minutes then, and I ended up killing the process myself.

So the kernel's behaviour has improved ?

regards,

Rik
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