Hi. I compiled 2.6.14 since I like having the framebuffer support and the Debian pre-packaged kernels don't have it in with 2.6.14, as well as headaches with yaboo (or whatever the heck it is) initrd generator. So I built it without initrd, and with ext3 compiled in.
When I enabled preemption, I noticed that the system (2.8GHz P4 laptop) became very jerky and pulling the mouse across the screen was an exercise in patience. I recompiled without preemption, and while mouse/keyboard response has improved almost to Debian-precompiled quality, now something else is happening: Top: top - 20:12:52 up 26 min, 1 user, load average: 1.14, 0.92, 0.77 Tasks: 108 total, 1 running, 107 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.0% us, 3.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 50.8% id, 0.0% wa, 31.8% hi, 13.4% si Mem: 513592k total, 507528k used, 6064k free, 3124k buffers Swap: 1510068k total, 4k used, 1510064k free, 359196k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 837 root 16 0 0 0 0 S 17.3 0.0 1:25.21 kjournald 4759 curt 15 0 51244 8812 7116 S 5.7 1.7 1:05.52 kio_ftp 4670 curt 15 0 23340 2932 1688 S 1.0 0.6 0:02.96 dcopserver 4710 curt 15 0 28560 14m 11m S 0.3 3.0 0:02.54 konsole 4755 curt 16 0 48912 27m 20m S 0.3 5.6 0:02.75 kmail 17% kjournald? Now, true, it's running an ftp, but it's only 300kBps. I have done full 100Mbps ethernet dumps that didn't blink an eye. Not only that, but every 5 seconds, the commit time for the ext3 journal, there is a noticable 1/2 second pause in keyboard/software response. This has not happened at all with the Debian compiled kernels. If someone wants to discuss this, I would love to share kernel build config files and such to try and find where this is "going wrong". Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
