Re: 2.6 vs 2.4, ssh terminal slowdown

[Grant Coady]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:24:11 -0500, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:11:49PM +1100, Grant Coady wrote:
>> This console sluggishness is noticeable enough on older hardware for me to 
>> forgo exercising 2.6.latest.stable bugs for much time on it ;)
>> 
>> For those suffering deja vu, yes, I reported this last month (or, recently).
>
>This bug report is a bit vague in terms of what the problem is -- the 
>test case hits 3 major subsystems (io, vm, net), all of which have changed 
>rather substantially in the course of 2.6 development.

Vague 'cos I do not know where the problem is.  One might say slowdown 
is like a near a 1ms delay per line output, but slowdown does not 
correlate to kernel tick frequency.  :(

> Would it be possible 
>to profile the system using oprofile to get an idea what the hotspots are?  
Perhaps, I've yet to try that.  

>Have you compared basic hard disk throughput with hdparm, as well as 
>ensuring DMA is enabled with 32 bit io?  What about testing network 
>performance with netperf (or a netcat of /dev/zero)?  A few more data points 
>would be quite helpful.

Yes, the gross datapoints such as basic net i/o, disk i/o, say 2.6 is 
better/faster than 2.4 on this hardware, my problem is how to describe 
measured console slowdown in terms meaningful to you. 

I'll take a look at oprofile, report back if I can make sense of it ;)

Grant.
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