Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:06:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:06:17 -0500 Received: from freeside.toyota.com ([63.87.74.7]:27578 "EHLO freeside.toyota.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:06:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3E78EC63.9050308@tmsusa.com> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 14:17:07 -0800 From: jjs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: elenstev@mesatop.com Cc: linux kernel Subject: Re: 2.5.65-mm2 References: <20030319012115.466970fd.akpm@digeo.com> <1048103489.1962.87.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <20030319121055.685b9b8c.akpm@digeo.com> <1048107434.1743.12.camel@spc1.esa.lanl.gov> <1048111359.1807.13.camel@spc1.esa.lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1132 Lines: 29 Steven P. Cole wrote: >I repeated the tests with 2.5.65-mm2 elevator=deadline and the situation >was similar to elevator=as. Running dbench on ext3, the response to >desktop switches and window wiggles was improved over running dbench on >reiserfs, but typing in Evolution was subject to long delays with dbench >clients greater than 16. > >I rebooted with 2.5.65-bk and ran dbench on ext3 again. Everything was >going smoothly, excellent interactivity, and then with dbench 28, the >system froze. No response to pings, no response to alt-sysrq-b (after >alt-sysrq-s). A hard reset was required. Nothing interesting logged. >Too bad. Before it crashed, 2.5.65-bk was responding to typing in an >Evolution new message window better than -mm2. > Just out of curiosity, what is the result of: cat /proc/sys/sched/max_timeslice? Does setting that to e.g. 50 make -mm2 smooth? Joe - 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/