Re: 2.6.6-rc3-mm1

[Pasi Savolainen <psavo@iki.fi>]

* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>:
> Pasi Savolainen wrote:
>> * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>:
>> 
>>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.6-rc3/2.6.6-rc3-mm1/
>> 
>> 
>> I'm having severe interactivity problems with 2.6 tree on a dual Athlon system.
>> I mostly get 'X screen freezes/mouse pointer immovable for a several
>> seconds' and rather often audio skips.
>> 
>
> Make sure X is running at the normal priority (ie 0).
> Does that improve things?

It already is at nice 0.

The slab shrinking fix Andrew provided reduced all the swapping to
minimum. So far 2.6.6-rc3+shrink_slab-handle-GFP_NOFS-fix has been the
most 'responsive' 2.6 (I've been following rather closely sice 2.5.75).

I can still trigger staggering and short (1/2sec) pauses when there's
memory pressure and I quit some swapped-out application. It's been this
way for a long time.

Thanks.
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