Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:15:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:15:15 -0500 Received: from a178d15hel.dial.kolumbus.fi ([212.54.8.178]:61748 "EHLO porkkala.jlaako.pp.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:15:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3C3DF5EE.33762724@kolumbus.fi> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:13:34 +0200 From: Jussi Laako X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable In-Reply-To: <200201101753.g0AHrlA17591@snark.thyrsus.com> <3C3DDEA9.E8FAB8DC@nortelnetworks.com> <20020110203655.H5235@khan.acc.umu.se> <3C3DF2DE.2316D13E@nortelnetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Friesen wrote: > > machine. Other possibilities would be running a kernel compile, a > recursive search for specific file content through the entire filesystem, > or anything else that is likely to cause problems. It might even be > someone else in the house logged into it and running stuff over the > network. It's not enjoyable late night DVD watching when updatedb fires up at middle of the movie. Nor when you are trying to record some audio to the disk. Vanilla kernel really chokes up on those situations. Lowlatency patches help a lot on this. - Jussi Laako -- PGP key fingerprint: 161D 6FED 6A92 39E2 EB5B 39DD A4DE 63EB C216 1E4B Available at PGP keyservers - 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/