2.0.31-6 slooooooooooow

Thomas Koenig (ig25@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Sat, 16 Aug 1997 00:46:32 +0200 (MET DST)

2.0.31-6 has a rather drastic problem when a process is writing large
amounts of data.

I started up "bonnie -s 200" on a 32 Meg P 133, and the system became
close to unusable almost at once. Switching between virtual consoles
still worked, but I had to wait for close to a minute when I wanted to
log in, or anything was swapped out to disk.

Please don't release 2.0.31-6 as 2.0.31 yet :-)

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_RST_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y
CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m
CONFIG_INET_PCTCP=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_EL2=y
CONFIG_VORTEX=y
CONFIG_NET_ISA=y
CONFIG_NE2000=y
CONFIG_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_SMB_FS=y
CONFIG_SMB_WIN95=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_RTC=y

-- 
Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.