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    SubjectRe: sluggish 2.2.1
    On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Steve Dodd wrote:

    > 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.

    I have reported some things that might be related. See if the interrupt
    count for things (like serial) is increasing and increasing, etc., without
    any reason. There may be a race somewhere. These continuous interrupts
    do slow things down.


    Cheers,
    Dick Johnson
    ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
    Penguin : Linux version 2.2.1 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips).
    Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
    Wisdom : It's not a Y2K problem. It's a Y2Day problem.



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