Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265902AbUAEI1G (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 03:27:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265905AbUAEI1G (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 03:27:06 -0500 Received: from mail.mediaways.net ([193.189.224.113]:30817 "HELO mail.mediaways.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265902AbUAEI1E (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 03:27:04 -0500 Subject: Re: xterm scrolling speed - scheduling weirdness in 2.6 ?! From: Soeren Sonnenburg To: szonyi calin Cc: azarah@nosferatu.za.org, Con Kolivas , Willy Tarreau , Mark Hahn , Linux Kernel Mailing Lists , gillb4@telusplanet.net In-Reply-To: <20040104225827.39142.qmail@web40613.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040104225827.39142.qmail@web40613.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1073291218.3261.60.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 09:26:58 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 787 Lines: 23 On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 23:58, szonyi calin wrote: [...] > how much free memory do you have when this happens ? > I had > a similar problem. It was easily reproducive doing > a du -sh / and then trying to do other things. > It didn't happend all the time but most of the time > > Doing a > echo 16384 >/proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes > seems to help the kernel remember that it has some swap and he > *has* to use it in some cases Hmmm... this machine has 1G memory and it happens after fresh reboots.... so memory is not the issue. Soeren. - 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/