Re: dentries rule. [was: Re: Pros and cons of newer kernels]

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:09:31 +0000 (GMT/BST)


On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> 2.0.31: 0.72user 5.11system 0:06.19elapsed 94%CPU (486/133)
>
> 2.1.64: 0.32user 0.57system 0:17.04elapsed 5%CPU (6x86 P150+)
>
>
> Just a bit of difference in the CPU usage, no? Any suggestions as to why
> the 6x86 shows so little CPU use? Top shows the system as being 97%
> idle! Could this be some odd misbehavior with the Cyrix idle patch?

It looks like the 6x86 machine spent around 10 seconds waiting
for I/O. Almost as if your hard disk interrupts aren't bringing
the processor out of hlt (but others must be). What do you get
without suspend on halt enabled or booting with the no-hlt boot
option?

Mike

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