2.4.2-test1 better on disk lock/freezups

[LA Walsh]

In trying to apply Jens's patch I upgraded to 2.4.2-pre1.  The figures on it(242-p1) look
better at this point: a vmstat dump, same data...notice this time it only took maybe 45
seconds to write out the data.  I also got better interactive performance.
So write speed is up to about 3.5Mb/s.  Fastest reads using 'hdparm' are in the 12-14Mb/s
range.  Sooo...IDE hdparm block dev read vs. file writes...3-4:1 ratio?

I honestly have little clue as to what would be considered 'good' numbers.

Note the maximum 'system freeze' seems under 10 seconds now -- alot more 
tolerable.  

Note also, this was without my applying Jens's patch -- as I could not figure out how
to get it to apply cleanly  :-(.

 0  0  0      0  77564  80220 280164   0   0     0   348  287  1367  10   7  83
 0  0  1      0  77560  80220 280164   0   0     0   304  193   225   0   1  99
 0  1  1      0  77572  80220 280156   0   0     0   162  241   354   4   2  95
 0  1  1      0  77572  80220 280156   0   0     0   156  218   182   0   1  99
 1  1  1      0  77560  80220 280164   0   0     0   165  217   218   0   1  99
 0  1  1      0  77328  80220 280164   0   0     0   134  213   215   1   1  97
 0  1  1      0  77328  80220 280164   0   0     0   138  217   177   0   1  98
 0  1  1      0  77328  80220 280164   0   0     0   206  215   178   0   1  99
 0  1  1      0  77332  80220 280164   0   0     0   166  219   206   1   1  98
 0  0  0      0  85632  80220 280172   0   0    14    12  192   360   1   1  98
 
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Linda A Walsh                    | Trust Technology, Core Linux, SGI
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