On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> But try 2.4.1 before worrying too much. That fixed a lot of the
> block performance problems I was seeing (2.4.1 ruins the VM
> performance under paging loads but the I/O speed is fixed ;))
The patch below should fix the paging performance.
I haven't had a
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, LA Walsh wrote:
> I've noticed less responsive disk response on 2.4.0 vs. 2.2.17.
> For example -- I run vmware and suspend it frequently when I'm
> not using it. One of them requires a 158Mb save file. Before,
> I could suspend that one, then start another which reads in
On Sun, Feb 04 2001, LA Walsh wrote:
> Seems to have gotten a bit worse. Vmstat output after 'vmware' had completed
> write -- but system unresponsive and writing out a 155M file...
Your numbers seem way too much off to have much to do with i/o scheduling
fairness, but there is a slight bu
Alan Cox wrote:
> But try 2.4.1 before worrying too much. That fixed a lot of the block
> performance problems I was seeing (2.4.1 ruins the VM performance under paging
> loads but the I/O speed is fixed ;))
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Seems to have gotten a bit worse. Vmstat output after 'vmware' had completed
> If I have vmstat running, I notice blocks trickling out to the disk, 5sec averages
> 495,142,151,155,136,257,15,0. Note that the maximum read rate (hdparm -t) of this
> disk is in the 12-14M/s range. I'm getting about 1-5% of that on output with the
> system's disk subsystem being apparently u
I've noticed less responsive disk response on 2.4.0 vs. 2.2.17. For example --
I run vmware and suspend it frequently when I'm not using it. One of them requires
a 158Mb save file. Before, I could suspend that one, then start another which
reads in a smaller 50M save file. The smaller one woul
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Delta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I backup my linux partition once a month from my second IDE drive to an
> empty partition
> on the first IDE disk. I have about 2.8 Gig to copy, and I use /mnt/hd> to do the copy.
>
# cd / ; nice -n 20 tar -clf - . | (cd /mnt/hd; tar -xpf -)
Will p
Delta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While cp is copying from the second hard disk to the first hard disk,
> I find my system performance
> drop VERY sharply. X is sloppy, even bash takes many seconds to
> respond. I using two
> recent IDE disk (Fudjisu 13 gig, Maxtor 20 Gig), so I'm wondering w
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