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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 17:07:09 +0200
From: Rene Puls <rpuls@gmx.net>
To: Peter Osterlund <peter.osterlund@mailbox.swipnet.se>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.4 sluggish under fork load
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Peter Osterlund wrote:
> 
> Another thing is that the bash loop "while true ; do /bin/true ; done" is
> not possible to interrupt with ctrl-c.

	Same thing here.

> A third thing I noticed is that starting a gnome session in redhat 7.0
> takes longer. (It takes more time for the gnome splash screen to
> appear.)

	I had similar problems with Sawfish: Starting a program from
the root menu would take about one or two seconds under 2.4.4.

> Reverting the fork patch makes all these problems go away on my
> machine.

	This patch worked for me as well.

bye,
Rene
 
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Rene Puls <rpuls@gmx.net>                                 0x8652FFE2
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