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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:19:36 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.65: *huge* interactivity problems
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> 
> I'm having awfull interactivity problems. While lingvistic application
> (slm from nltools.sf.net) is running, machine is unusable. I still can
> read text in most, but can't login, can't run links, can't... For
> minutes.
> 
> slm does a lot of computation over ~250MB dataset, but during stall
> disk was not active.

Oh Pavel, this is more a whinge than a bug report.  You know better ;)

- How much memory does the machine have?

- UP/SMP/preempt?

- What do vmstat and top say?

- Did it happen in 2.5.64?  2.5.63?  2.4.20?

- Does it get better if you renice stuff?

- What steps should others take to reproduce it?

etc, etc, etc.

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