Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Marc-Christian Petersen <> | Subject | Re: What's the deal McNeil? Bad interactive behavior in X w/ RH's 2.4.18 | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:06:59 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 22 April 2003 09:48, Michael B Allen wrote:
Hi Michael,
> I'm running Red Hat 7.3 with their stock 2.4.18-3 kernel on an IBM > T30. Once every few hours X locks up for 5-10 seconds while the disk > grinds. If I type in an Xterm the characters are not echoed until the > disk grinding stops. Then they all come out in a bunch and life is back > to normal. > I asked about this on kernelnewbies but the only response was something > regarding some kind of change to the 'elevator code' but they didn't > know of a solution. The problem is, since 2.4.19-pre5 the elevator has changed to give more throughput but also introduce pauses and even stops while disk i/o.
Redhat's 2.4.18 is not 2.4.18 but something 2.4.19ish(-pre|-pre-ac or so).
> I would like very much for this behavior to go away as it is extremely > annoying. If there is a patch please let me know where I can get it. There are some hacks. One by Andrea Arcangeli, one by Neil Schemenauer and one by Con Kolivas and me. Search the archives please (lowlat elevator/io scheduler)
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