2.2.14 feels slow and non-interactive.

[Jorgen Skjaanes]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Jorgen Skjaanes wrote:
> 
> >Mem:        160512     157532       2980      39880       3276     115928
> >-/+ buffers/cache:      38328     122184
> >Swap:        72288      26980      45308
> 
> Please try out to reproduce on 2.2.14aa1:
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.2/2.2.14aa1.gz

Ok, now I have. It's got alot less in swap (see below). But it has only been
up for 6 hours, so it should grow. The numbers above was after a week or so. 
Regarding the feel of it, it doesn't seem any bether to me. 
Maybe even slightly worse, but it's hard to tell for sure. I guess it's true:
the box is just trying to do too much in too litle memory. So using it as a
desktop isn't fun anymore. 

I see things like this very often:
 0   500  1127     1   1   0  21964 13736 wait_on_buf D    1  0:49 /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator
40   558   619   507   2   0   4476  2228 wait_on_pag D   ?  10:23 /opt/linpro/logbox/bin/postgres localhost logbox logbox SELECT     

which 5 second later is:

 0   500  1127     1   0   0  21672 13456 wait_on_pag D    1  0:50 /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator
40   558   619   507   0   0   4476  2228 wait_on_buf D   ?  10:27 /opt/linpro/logbox/bin/postgres localhost logbox logbox SELECT          

and a minute or so later:
 40     0     3     1   0   0      0     0 wait_on_buf DW  ?   0:00 (kupdate)
140   559   663   364   0   0   1880  1144 wait_on_buf D   ?   0:17 smbd -D 
 40   558   619   507   2   0   4476  2228 wait_on_pag D   ?  10:49 /opt/linpro/logbox/bin/postgres localhost logbox logbox SELECT

(randomly picked ps outputs)

Here's procinfo at the moment:

Linux 2.2.14aa1 (root en pimp.gulesider.no) (gcc 2.7.2.3) #4 Fri Jan 21 11:16:17
CET 2000 [pimp.gulesider.no]

Memory:      Total        Used        Free      Shared     Buffers      Cached
Mem:        160544      157620        2924      108048         816       47576
Swap:        72288         252       72036

Bootup: Fri Jan 21 11:17:07 2000    Load average: 2.32 2.13 2.11 3/116 4187

user  :       1:08:59.65  19.7%  page in : 46782082  disk 1:  1445511r   63872w
nice  :       3:32:35.65  60.7%  page out:   163596
system:       1:07:07.61  19.2%  swap in :     1265
idle  :       0:01:23.19   0.4%  swap out:       64
uptime:       5:50:06.09         context : 22638173

irq  0:   2100610 timer                 irq  9:   1451466 aic7xxx              
irq  1:     36862 keyboard              irq 10:    610775 eth0                 
irq  2:         0 cascade [4]           irq 12:    308791 PS/2 Mouse           
irq  5:  10237848 soundblaster          irq 13:         1 fpu                  
irq  6:         3                       irq 14:     56740 ide0                 
irq  7:         1                       irq 15:         5 ide1

-- 
Jorgen


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