On March 19, 2003 06:45 pm, Steven P. Cole wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 17:33, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > "Steven P. Cole" <elenstev@mesatop.com> wrote:
> > > > Summary: using ext3, the simple window shake and scrollbar wiggle
> > > > tests were much improved, but really using Evolution left much to be
> > > > desired.
> > >
> > > Replying to myself for a followup,
> > >
> > > I repeated the tests with 2.5.65-mm2 elevator=deadline and the
> > > situation was similar to elevator=as. Running dbench on ext3, the
> > > response to desktop switches and window wiggles was improved over
> > > running dbench on reiserfs, but typing in Evolution was subject to long
> > > delays with dbench clients greater than 16.
> >
> > OK, final question before I get off my butt and find a way to reproduce
> > this:
> >
> > Does reverting
> >
> > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.65/2.5.65-mm2/broken-ou
> >t/sched-2.5.64-D3.patch
> >
> > help?
>
> Sorry, didn't have much time for a lot of testing, but no miracles
> occurred. With 5 minutes of testing 2.5.65-mm2 and dbench 24 on ext3
> and that patch reverted (first hunk had to be manually fixed), I don't
> see any improvement. Still the same long long delays in trying to use
> Evolution.
Steven,
Do things improve with the patch below applied? You have to backout the
schedule-tuneables patch before appling it.
Ed Tomlinson
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