Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:17:06PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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

can you reproduce on 2.4.15aa1?

Andrea