Re: 2.1.120 sluggish!

John Kennedy (jk@csuchico.edu)
Mon, 7 Sep 1998 11:42:39 -0700

[Alan Cox]
>[???]
>> As a followup to my own post, I have verified a similar percentage
>> of slowdown on every box I own - including a dual PPro SMP machine
>> which went from a full build in ~4:40 to > 6 minutes. Something has
>> definitely caused a performance hit.
>>
>> Please tell me I'm not the only person seeing this...
>
> With 2.1.120 Im seeing a different problem, its crashing with what
> appears to be memory corruption sometimes and as yet untraced solid
> locks others. I've not had either vanilla or patched 2.1.120 stay
> up > 8 hours yet
>
> Dropping back to 2.1.119+bits on the hardware seems to be solid again

[Note the "not SMP", but it may be helpful regardless.]

I've had my 2.1.120 box up over a day (1 day, 15:42) and rebuild my
homebrew distribution 3+ times, which gives things a pretty good workout
but doesn't necessarily thrash a whole lot. That works out to be about
4.77+ hours of a 1+ (but almost always less than 2) load per build, plus
about a 1-hour cpio/bzip2 fest afterwards which gets me a lot closer to
a load of 2. Not SMP in my case; 300MHz PII. I certainly haven't seen
a huge increase in compile time, although I got to add some bits of my
distribution back in (lynx-2.8 was croaking with egcs-1.0.3a but works
with -1.1b) so the time isn't exactly the same.
--- john

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