> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 05:38:18AM +1100, Jim Woodward wrote:
>
> > I noticed this with 2.2.1 - at one stage I through the machine had locked
> > solid, but it was just my MRTG cron job running.. mouse under X stopped
> > for about 5 or more seconds.. keyboard didnt respond..
>
> Hmm, I'm running a kernel build in the background now (2.2.2-pre1) and I'm
> sure the interactive response is worse than I would expect - window redraws,
> scrolling in mutt in an rxvt, etc. Some way to quantify this sort of thing
> would be good, but I've no idea where to even start...
>
> S.
I have reported some things that might be related. See if the interrupt
count for things (like serial) is increasing and increasing, etc., without
any reason. There may be a race somewhere. These continuous interrupts
do slow things down.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
Penguin : Linux version 2.2.1 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips).
Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
Wisdom : It's not a Y2K problem. It's a Y2Day problem.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/