2.2.14 feels slow and non-interactive.

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Jorgen Skjaanes wrote:

>the box is just trying to do too much in too litle memory. So using it as a
>desktop isn't fun anymore. 

Also desktop will like to avoid swapin/swaouts. In a desktop usage you
still have to grab TV and read mailing lists.

>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

Unless you have a disk faster than memory that's normal.

>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

Feel free to also produce some number in function of time. From the static
info I can see above all seems fine to me.

Andrea


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