On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 05:35:02AM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
> > 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
> <snip>
> >> 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.
That's how Linus, Marcello and everyone else gets them.
> 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?
It is up to Red Hat to $upply fixes for their kernels.
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