Re: 2.2.14 feels slow and non-interactive.

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 11:45:50 EST


On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Jorgen Skjaanes wrote:

>the box is just trying to do too much in too litle memory. So using it as a
>desktop isn't fun anymore.

Also desktop will like to avoid swapin/swaouts. In a desktop usage you
still have to grab TV and read mailing lists.

>I see things like this very often:
> 0 500 1127 1 1 0 21964 13736 wait_on_buf D 1 0:49 /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator
>40 558 619 507 2 0 4476 2228 wait_on_pag D ? 10:23 /opt/linpro/logbox/bin/postgres localhost logbox logbox SELECT
>
>which 5 second later is:
>
> 0 500 1127 1 0 0 21672 13456 wait_on_pag D 1 0:50 /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator
>40 558 619 507 0 0 4476 2228 wait_on_buf D ? 10:27 /opt/linpro/logbox/bin/postgres localhost logbox logbox SELECT
>
>and a minute or so later:
> 40 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 wait_on_buf DW ? 0:00 (kupdate)
>140 559 663 364 0 0 1880 1144 wait_on_buf D ? 0:17 smbd -D
> 40 558 619 507 2 0 4476 2228 wait_on_pag D ? 10:49 /opt/linpro/logbox/bin/postgres localhost logbox logbox SELECT

Unless you have a disk faster than memory that's normal.

>Linux 2.2.14aa1 (root@pimp.gulesider.no) (gcc 2.7.2.3) #4 Fri Jan 21 11:16:17
>CET 2000 [pimp.gulesider.no]
>
>Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers Cached
>Mem: 160544 157620 2924 108048 816 47576
>Swap: 72288 252 72036

Feel free to also produce some number in function of time. From the static
info I can see above all seems fine to me.

Andrea

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