[OT] Re: boot up problem of IDE disk in 2.4.0!

2001-01-05 Thread Goblin
You know, it makes me really love free OSes when I see a simple question asked on the list, and it's answered by the guy who writes the code!!! Cheers to Alan, Andre, Linus, Rik, R. Gooch, Mingo, HPA and all the rest who I forgot. You guys ROCK! -Shawn On 01/05, Andre Hedrick rearranged the

[OT] Re: boot up problem of IDE disk in 2.4.0!

2001-01-05 Thread Goblin
You know, it makes me really love free OSes when I see a simple question asked on the list, and it's answered by the guy who writes the code!!! Cheers to Alan, Andre, Linus, Rik, R. Gooch, Mingo, HPA and all the rest who I forgot. You guys ROCK! -Shawn On 01/05, Andre Hedrick rearranged the

2.4.0-test7-vmpatch2 sluggish laptop: take 2

2000-08-31 Thread Goblin
Now, I have timings and vmstat output during this command... bunzip2 -c /usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test7.tar.bz2 > /root/temp-`uname -r` 2>&1 2.4.0-test7-vmpatch2b-time 271.98s user 17.87s system 63% cpu 7:37.61 total cat 2.2.16-9mdk-time 32.07s user 1.22s system 96% cpu 34.646 total And vmstat

2.4.0-test7-vmpatch2 sluggish laptop: take 2

2000-08-31 Thread Goblin
Now, I have timings and vmstat output during this command... bunzip2 -c /usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test7.tar.bz2 /root/temp-`uname -r` 21 2.4.0-test7-vmpatch2b-time 271.98s user 17.87s system 63% cpu 7:37.61 total cat 2.2.16-9mdk-time 32.07s user 1.22s system 96% cpu 34.646 total And vmstat output

Re: 2.4.0-test7-vmpatch2 very sluggish on Toshiba laptop

2000-08-30 Thread Goblin
It seems I have a talent for speaking too soon, as this was actually not the problem. I got similar performance to 2.2.16 for about 5 minutes, then it was ten times as slow again. I'll still have to look closer at what vmstat shows me after I do the test with bunzip2. (Laptop packed away for the

Re: 2.4.0-test7-vmpatch2 very sluggish on Toshiba laptop

2000-08-30 Thread Goblin
Seems after I updated pcmcia (per the Changes doco) I've managed to discover again that I spoke too soon. -Shawn On 08/30, Me rearranged the electrons to read: > On 08/30, Rik van Riel rearranged the electrons to read: > > On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Goblin wrote: > > > > > I

Re: 2.4.0-test7-vmpatch2 very sluggish on Toshiba laptop

2000-08-30 Thread Goblin
On 08/30, Rik van Riel rearranged the electrons to read: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Goblin wrote: > > > I am running Mandrake 7.1, pretty much stock with all the updates. I > > would like to know how I might go about determining why my system is > > incredibly sluggish

2.4.0-test7-vmpatch2 very sluggish on Toshiba laptop

2000-08-30 Thread Goblin
I am running Mandrake 7.1, pretty much stock with all the updates. I would like to know how I might go about determining why my system is incredibly sluggish using new kernels. Stock Mandrake kernels run great. I guess I wanted to know if there was anyone else having the same experience.

Re: 2.4.0-test7-vmpatch2 very sluggish on Toshiba laptop

2000-08-30 Thread Goblin
On 08/30, Rik van Riel rearranged the electrons to read: On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Goblin wrote: I am running Mandrake 7.1, pretty much stock with all the updates. I would like to know how I might go about determining why my system is incredibly sluggish using new kernels. Stock Mandrake