From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263025AbTDVJW7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 05:22:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263026AbTDVJW7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 05:22:59 -0400 Received: from iits0165.inlink.com ([209.135.140.65]:36303 "EHLO vs365.rosehosting.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263025AbTDVJW6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 05:22:58 -0400 Message-ID: <38291.207.172.171.44.1051004102.squirrel@miallen.com> In-Reply-To: <200304221006.09601.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> References: <20030422034821.6a57acc0.mba2000@ioplex.com> <200304221006.09601.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 05:35:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: What's the deal McNeil? Bad interactive behavior in X w/ RH's 2.4.18 From: "Michael B Allen" To: "Marc-Christian Petersen" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0-1.7.x MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Tuesday 22 April 2003 09:48, Michael B Allen wrote: > > Hi Michael, > >> I'm running Red Hat 7.3 with their stock 2.4.18-3 kernel on an IBM >> T30. Once every few hours X locks up for 5-10 seconds while the disk >> grinds. If I type in an Xterm the characters are not echoed until the >> I would like very much for this behavior to go away as it is extremely >> annoying. If there is a patch please let me know where I can get it. > There are some hacks. One by Andrea Arcangeli, one by Neil Schemenauer and > one > by Con Kolivas and me. Search the archives please (lowlat elevator/io > scheduler) Ok, I searched a little using the Googler at indiana.edu's archives but nothing jumped up and bit me. I'm not too excited about applying a patch snarfed out of an e-mail anywat. I'm surprised no one else has not complained about this enough to the point where you guys don't have a canned answer with a link. Is this problem not considered important? Does anyone know which RH patch in the 2.4.18-10 RPM adds this elevator throughput "improvement"? What identifiers would such a patch have in it? Thanks, Mike PS: Why are there only "hacks"? Is this not considered important?