Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:58:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:57:56 -0400 Received: from [213.237.118.153] ([213.237.118.153]:17024 "EHLO Princess") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:57:46 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Allan Sandfeld To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.13pre3aa1 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:55:27 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] In-Reply-To: <20011016110708.D2380@athlon.random> <20011016152126.01d58180.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20011016152126.01d58180.skraw@ithnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Stephan von Krawczynski Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 16 October 2001 15:21, you wrote: > > On my system I cannot see anything the like. Look at the execution time. > Ok, I must admit: I do not use brain-dead K stuff (warning: this is a very > personal opinion, don't flame me here :-). > > What does your setup look like? Have you ever tested without K? > No, I havent tried it without K. The system is quite responsive if I only run updatedb, and swap around in either text-linux or a simple X setup. When looking closer at the problem, it is the combination of running kmail with HUGE folders (think linux-kernel archive), apt-get and anacron that thrashes the system. All of these have a "relative" low impact when running alone or two and two. It might be "what you expect" abusing the system like that. But as I said, it is not a problem in 2.4.11-pre1 and 2.4.12-ac3. Princess:/home# cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 196304896 192466944 3837952 0 1327104 33628160 Swap: 255426560 64491520 190935040 MemTotal: 191704 kB MemFree: 3748 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 1296 kB Cached: 28196 kB SwapCached: 4644 kB Active: 23344 kB Inactive: 10792 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 191704 kB LowFree: 3748 kB SwapTotal: 249440 kB SwapFree: 186460 kB Princess:/proc# uname -r 2.4.13-pre2 Princess:/proc# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 18975356 9843804 8167652 55% / /dev/hda1 7318 7241 0 100% /boot 15:52:56 up 1:03, 2 users, load average: 3.44, 3.95, 3.16 90 processes: 86 sleeping, 2 running, 2 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 23.7% user, 3.4% system, 0.0% nice, 73.0% idle Mem: 191704K total, 188024K used, 3680K free, 2652K buffers Swap: 249440K total, 61744K used, 187696K free, 21268K cached Does all this help you? Notice this is not worst case, just what I could reproduce by starting updatedb and checksecurity while answering your mail. Switchtime from desktop to desktop is 1 minute. `Allan - 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/