Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2002 19:02:13 +0100 (CET) | From | Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] Error reading multiple large files :-) |
| |
Thanks, guys!
This actually solved the problem, and even gave me a little increase in read speed as a bonus.
Is this somehow planned for a 2.4 merge?
roy
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > > > you really should try akpm's "[patch, CFT] improved disk read latency" > > > patch. it sounds almost perfect for your application. > > > It seemed like it helped first, but after a while, some 99 processes > > went Defunct, and locked. After this, the total 'bi' as reported from > > vmstat went down to ~ 900kB per sec > > > > What should I do? > > I've done a little bit of low memory testing with my -rmap > VM patch, the system seems to be working just fine with 8MB > of RAM ... > > If you have the time, could you try the following patch ? > > http://surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.17-rmap-11a > > > regards, > > Rik > -- > "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" > -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document > > http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ >
-- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA
Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |