Re: sluggish 2.2.1

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:17:09 +0000


Hi,

On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 05:38:18AM +1100, Jim Woodward wrote:

> I noticed this with 2.2.1 - at one stage I through the machine had locked
> solid, but it was just my MRTG cron job running.. mouse under X stopped
> for about 5 or more seconds.. keyboard didnt respond..

Hmm, I'm running a kernel build in the background now (2.2.2-pre1) and I'm
sure the interactive response is worse than I would expect - window redraws,
scrolling in mutt in an rxvt, etc. Some way to quantify this sort of thing
would be good, but I've no idea where to even start...

S.

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