Re: xterm scrolling speed - scheduling weirdness in 2.6 ?!

From: Soeren Sonnenburg
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 03:28:16 EST


On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 23:58, szonyi calin wrote:
[...]
> how much free memory do you have when this happens ?
> I had
> a similar problem. It was easily reproducive doing
> a du -sh / and then trying to do other things.
> It didn't happend all the time but most of the time
>
> Doing a
> echo 16384 >/proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
> seems to help the kernel remember that it has some swap and he
> *has* to use it in some cases

Hmmm... this machine has 1G memory and it happens after fresh
reboots.... so memory is not the issue.

Soeren.

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