On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Hardware Stuff wrote:
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> On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > The fun thing is, that if I stop the two rc5des clients so the CPUs get a
> > little idle-time, the problem vanishes.
>
> I seem to also have this problem - just reproduced it 2.1.131
> also. It get it when I manipulate large images in GIMP - which is single
> threaded so my load is only reaching 4ish. After it starts happening the
> system gets slower and slower until I stop and restart the rc5 clients. It
>
> Alan
>
>
> Ah..since the rc5 clients are in common in both posts, why aren't you
> considering them as the cause? Seems far more likely than a kernel
> issue.
Because:
1. It only started happening recently - with a kernel change as that is
_all_ that has changed on my system over the last month. So therefore the
kernel is part of the cause, if not the actual problem
but mostly:
2. Because the rc5des client is almost totally CPU/memory bound (it writes
logs to disc occasionally) and is niced as nice as a program gets.
Therefore the kernel should _not_ allow it to slow the system down in the
way that it appears to be doing.
Alan
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