Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:00:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:00:09 -0500 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:53701 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:00:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:10:55 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Steven Cole Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.5.65-mm2 Message-Id: <20030319121055.685b9b8c.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <1048103489.1962.87.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> References: <20030319012115.466970fd.akpm@digeo.com> <1048103489.1962.87.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Mar 2003 20:10:52.0340 (UTC) FILETIME=[A4254F40:01C2EE53] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 871 Lines: 22 Steven Cole wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 02:21, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.65/2.5.65-mm2/ > > > > I am seeing a significant degradation of interactivity under load with > recent -mm kernels. The load is dbench on a reiserfs file system with > increasing numbers of clients. The test machine is single PIII, IDE, > 256MB memory, all kernels PREEMPT. (This email brought to you while running dbench 128 on ext3) There's a pretty big reiserfs patch in -mm. Are you able to whip up an ext2 partition and see if that displays the same problem? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/