Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Apr 2001 10:26:13 -0400 | From | "Mohammad A. Haque" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.4 sluggish under fork load |
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Peter Osterlund wrote: > > I have noticed that 2.4.4 feels a lot less responsive than 2.4.3 under > fork load. This is caused by the "run child first after fork" patch. I > have tested on two different UP x86 systems running redhat 7.0. > > For example, when running the gcc configure script, the X mouse pointer is > very jerky. The configure script itself runs approximately as fast as in > 2.4.3. > > Another thing is that the bash loop "while true ; do /bin/true ; done" is > not possible to interrupt with ctrl-c. >
Just as a data point, I'm experiencing this also.
> Reverting the fork patch makes all these problems go away on my machine. > I'm not saying that this is necessarily a good idea, that patch might be > good for other reasons.
I'll try out this patch soon. --
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