Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268095AbTGIJ7p (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 05:59:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268089AbTGIJ7n (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 05:59:43 -0400 Received: from lindsey.linux-systeme.com ([80.190.48.67]:3334 "EHLO mx00.linux-systeme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267828AbTGIJ7N (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 05:59:13 -0400 From: Marc-Christian Petersen Organization: Working Overloaded Linux Kernel To: Zwane Mwaikambo Subject: Re: [PATCH] O3int interactivity for 2.5.74-mm2 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:12:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: Con Kolivas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Galbraith , Nick Sanders , Andrew Morton , Felipe Alfaro Solana References: <200307070317.11246.kernel@kolivas.org> <200307071343.26318.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307091211.57017.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1387 Lines: 35 On Tuesday 08 July 2003 02:31, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: Hi Zwane, > > - An Xterm needs ~30 seconds to open up while "make -j16 bzImage modules" > > - An Xterm needs ~15 seconds to open up while "make -j8 bzImage modules" > > - XMMS does _not_ skip mp3's while above. > How fast is your box? RAM? disks? I'm personally more interested in 1-2 > make -j2 bzImage going - Celeron 1,3GHz - 512MB RAM - 1GB SWAP (2 IDE disks, ~512MB on each disk) - ATA100 Maxtor 60GB HDD - ATA100 Fujitsu 40GB Now I am running 2.5.74-mm3, xterm needs about 5 seconds to open up, but the whole system is again in a snail mode. XMMS does not skip. > > - Kmail is almost unusable while above (stops for about 5 secs every > > 15-20 secs). KMail is also very slow while the machine is doing nothing. > > - X runs with nice 0, prio 15 (nice -11 is prio 4, does not make > > difference) > Looking at above load i'm not entirely surprised, but i presume you're > going to name a kernel which can handle that and still complete the builds > withing a sane time frame. For example, my wolk4 tree can handle it very well. 2.4-aa can handle it very well too. ciao, Marc - 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/