Re: Is it normal for freezing while...

war (war@starband.net)
Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:52:36 -0500


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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. Sometimes :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> -

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