On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> >From: "Terry Katz" <katz@advanced.org>
> 2.3.99-pre5 a couple of days ago. In fact, its so bad, that a disk
> performance test program that writes 500MB of data won't even
> complete! My audio HDR system ardour, which works fine under 2.3.51
> cannot get close to its intended performance under 2.3.99pre-5 - as
> soon as we have written more than a few 100MB, it grinds to a halt.
>
> The more general effects also happen - other programs with GUI's
> on them, and X in general, cease to become responsive, though they do
> not stop altogether.
My VM rebalancing patch should fix both these problems.
Unfortunately I've only had time to test it on my 64MB
machine, but it should work well on other machines too.
Today or tomorrow I'll make code (sysctl switchable) that
prevents memory hogs from completely dominating the machine.
You can get my patch at http://www.surriel.com/patches/
(and yes, I would *really* like to know if it is as effective
for your particular workload as it is for the workloads I tested
with)
regards,
Rik
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