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Subject: Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16
To: ngrennan@okcforum.org (Nathan G. Grennan)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:17:06 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> 2.4.16 becomes very unresponsive for 30 seconds or so at a time during
> large unarchiving of tarballs, like tar -zxf mozilla-src.tar.gz. The
> file is about 36mb. I run top in one window, run free repeatedly in

This seems to be one of the small as yet unresolved problems with the newer
VM code in 2.4.16. I've not managed to prove its the VM or the differing
I/O scheduling rules however.

> Any ideas of how to fix this for 2.4.16?

If it is the VM then watch for a patch from Rik for 2.4.16 + RielVM. If
that helps then we know its VM related , if not then we know to look at
other suspects

Alan
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