Hi, Just found a particular workload that yields a terrible performance. Running two simultaneous diff like this: diff -uNr linux-2.2.18-pre11 linux-2.2.18-pre11.new diff -uNr linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7 linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7.new And then trying, for example, to open a terminal only succeeded after one of the diff ended (a couple of minutes later). Attached is the 'vmstat 1' output. The file starts after the two diff are running and I'm waiting for the terminal to come up. When the number of blocked processes drops to 0/1 is when one of the diffs ended. This is an UP machine using ext2 on IDE. Rui Sousa
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