Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:37:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:36:58 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:36872 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:36:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:36:53 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: safemode Cc: Andrew Morton , Dieter =?iso-8859-1?Q?N=FCtzel?= , Robert Love , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: 2.4.10-ac10-preempt lmbench output. Message-ID: <20011010153653.Q726@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <200110100358.NAA17519@isis.its.uow.edu.au> <20011010072607.P726@athlon.random> <20011010114132Z275506-760+23131@vger.kernel.org> <20011010120009.851921E7C9@Cantor.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011010120009.851921E7C9@Cantor.suse.de>; from safemode@speakeasy.net on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:00:04AM -0400 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:00:04AM -0400, safemode wrote: > OK, i copied the mp3 into /dev/shm and without any renicing of anything it > plays fine during dbench 32. so the problem is disk access taking too long. > > Which is strange since i'm running dbench on a separate hdd on a totally > different controller. then if you know it's not disk congestion, it's most probably due the vm write throttling. Andrea - 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/