From: khromy@lnuxlab.ath.cx (khromy)
To: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@mail.muni.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Terrible VM in 2.4.11+?
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:27:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020708232710.GA6798@lnuxlab.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020709001137.A1745@mail.muni.cz>
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 12:11:37AM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> as of the last stable version 2.4.18 VM management does not work for me
> properly. I have Athlon system with 512MB ram, 2.4.18 kernel without any
> additional patches.
>
> I run following sequence of commands:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp bs=1M count=512 &
> find / -print &
> { wait a few seconds }
> sync
>
> at this point find stops completely or at least almost stops.
>
> The same if I copy from /dev/hdf to /dev/hda. XOSVIEW shows only reading or only
Wow, this is the same problem I was having! Checkout the thread 'sync
slowness. ext3 on VIA vt82c686b'. Some said it was my harddrive, but
this morning I noticed the problem is gone!
After I copy the file, sync returns right away. I'm running
2.4.19-rc1aa1 now.
--
L1: khromy ;khromy(at)lnuxlab.ath.cx
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-08 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-08 22:11 Lukas Hejtmanek
2002-07-08 22:37 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-07-08 22:50 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2002-07-08 22:58 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-07-08 23:58 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2002-07-09 10:48 ` Terrible VM in 2.4.11+ again? Lukas Hejtmanek
2002-07-10 16:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] ` <20020801113124.GA755@mail.muni.cz>
[not found] ` <20020801140348.GM1132@dualathlon.random>
[not found] ` <20020801141940.GB755@mail.muni.cz>
2002-08-01 15:39 ` Terrible VM in 2.4.19rc3aa4 once again? Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] ` <20020801220143.GC755@mail.muni.cz>
2002-08-01 22:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-10 8:43 ` Terrible VM in 2.4.11+? Thomas Tonino
2002-07-10 8:49 ` Jens Axboe
2002-07-10 13:52 ` Thomas Tonino
2002-07-10 16:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-07-10 12:34 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-07-08 23:04 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-07-08 23:27 ` khromy [this message]
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