>I repeated the tests with 2.5.65-mm2 elevator=deadline and the situation
>was similar to elevator=as. Running dbench on ext3, the response to
>desktop switches and window wiggles was improved over running dbench on
>reiserfs, but typing in Evolution was subject to long delays with dbench
>clients greater than 16.
>
>I rebooted with 2.5.65-bk and ran dbench on ext3 again. Everything was
>going smoothly, excellent interactivity, and then with dbench 28, the
>system froze. No response to pings, no response to alt-sysrq-b (after
>alt-sysrq-s). A hard reset was required. Nothing interesting logged.
>Too bad. Before it crashed, 2.5.65-bk was responding to typing in an
>Evolution new message window better than -mm2.
>
Just out of curiosity, what is the result of:
cat /proc/sys/sched/max_timeslice?
Does setting that to e.g. 50 make -mm2 smooth?
Joe
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