Re: 2.2.14 feels slow and non-interactive.

From: Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 23:58:57 EST

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

>Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:57:42 +0000 (GMT)
>From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
>Cc: Mike A. Harris <mharris@meteng.on.ca>,
     Jorgen Skjaanes <js@pimp.gulesider.no>,
     Linux Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>,
     Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>Subject: Re: 2.2.14 feels slow and non-interactive.
>
>> About the different behaviour between 2.2.13 and 2.2.14 there is not good
>> reason in the common code as far I can tell. Also there isn't such a
>> difference here. Maybe it's a device driver change?
>
>Im not sure 2.2.13->14 is the change, its certainly involved. The drivers/stack
>havent all changed, its not a driver issue. 2.2.13 also certainly shows parts
>of the behaviour.
>
>If you think the swapping diffs from 2.2.14aa1 will help then let me know
>where to grab just the needed bits and we'll try it for 2.2.15pre4.

Attached is my .config so you can see what I'm using. Here is
the output of lsmod:

4 root@asdf:/etc# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ppp_deflate 40548 1 (autoclean)
ppp 20012 2 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
slhc 4328 1 (autoclean) [ppp]
ide-scsi 7052 0
scsi_mod 37932 1 [ide-scsi]
nfs 28536 3 (autoclean)
lockd 30952 0 (autoclean) [nfs]
sunrpc 52740 1 (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
ne2k-pci 4448 1 (autoclean)
8390 6244 0 (autoclean) [ne2k-pci]
ipx 12668 1 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 2020 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3548 2 (autoclean)
vfat 9180 2 (autoclean)
fat 30464 2 (autoclean) [vfat]
devpts 2920 1 (autoclean)
opl3 11208 0
sb 33620 0
uart401 5968 0 [sb]
sound 57208 0 [opl3 sb uart401]
soundlow 300 0 [sound]
soundcore 2372 6 [sb sound]
4 root@asdf:/etc#

I'll try the aa1 patch if you think it might help. I'll do so
tonight.

Thanks.
TTYL 

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