Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 00:53:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 00:53:48 -0500 Received: from c0mailgw.prontomail.com ([216.163.180.10]:6884 "EHLO c0mailgw04.prontomail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 00:53:27 -0500 Message-ID: <3C087023.9683B8AF@starband.net> Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:52:36 -0500 From: war X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.16 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is it normal for freezing while... In-Reply-To: <3C085B04.50ABE0B5@starband.net> <3C0867A3.5119D2BC@zip.com.au> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------045F1643A1F0FCCCBC8416DE" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------045F1643A1F0FCCCBC8416DE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wow, responsiveness is wonderful with these patches. Will they make it into 2.4.17, (ie: I've seen the -pre2 changelog, did you incorporate them into -pre2)? Even throughout the entire dd, it remained responsive (mouse/cursor/network/etc). Attached is the vmstat log during the dd. Andrew Morton wrote: > war wrote: > > > > Is it normal for a system to lockup while creating a 3GB test file? > > > > Seems that way. > > It also seems that yesterday I sent you the URL of two patches: > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4/2.4.17-pre1/vm-fixes.patch > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4/2.4.17-pre1/elevator.patch > > and I explicitly asked you to report on the result of applying them? > > If you apply them, you'll find that the problem goes away. If you're > using ext3, you'll get better results if you mount with the `noatime' > option. > > So please - test the patches, report the results. It's how things > work around here. 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