Re: Linux 2.2.15pre4

On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 04:03:32AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Assorted further fixing/cleanups. Some driver updates. 
> One small but important VM change. It should feel a lot faster and behave
> better under load than older 2.2.x kernels. It might not, it might seem
> worse for some loads. Feedback on this one is important, I dont want to
> improve 90% of users performance and kill 10% dead.

2.2.13 vs 2.2.15pre4

laptop AMD K6/2-333 128MB Memory

I run mpg123 almost all the time in the background. I don't generally
experience any clicks in the music except when I am running a
backup script of mine.  The backup script does a tar and pipes the
archive to pgp and the result is delivered over the network to
another machine.

With 2.2.13 I got the occasional click in the audio when the
backup was going on.  I never noticed any other manifestation of
the "delay".

With 2.2.15pre4 the click occurs and seems to be more like a 0.35 second
pause rather than a click.  I also noticed in my VI sessions the
sessions stops for the duration of the pause.  I had never noticed 
VI pause before.  

I just ran the script again, and the click/noticable pause occured
twice while typing this line.

I don't do anything with niceness.  Everything is running with
whatever niceness the system assigned by default.  Click/paused
2 more times.

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Brian Litzinger <[e-mail]>