2.2.14 feels slow and non-interactive.

[Mike A. Harris]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:

>Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:40:49 -0300
>From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand en sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
>To: mharris en meteng.on.ca
>Cc: Linux Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel en vger.rutgers.edu>
>Subject: Re: 2.2.14 feels slow and non-interactive. 
>
>"Mike A. Harris" <mharris en meteng.on.ca> said:
>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Bernard Wei wrote:
>> >> Anyone else experience loss of interactivity and slowdowns on
>> >> 2.2.14?
>
>> >Yes, when I only using a fraction of my installed memory :c)
>
>> >Make sure you are running with all your physical memory detected.
>> >For a time I was running with only 1/4 of my physical memory.  But
>> >I have a total of 256MB, so it took me a long time to realize that 
>> >I didn't use the full 256MB.  
>
>> No, thats definitely not the problem either.  I have 96Mb of RAM
>> in my system - 64Mb of which is cached and 32Mb uncached.
>
>Try booting with "mem=64m" and check that way then. Perhaps the memory
>usage shifted so it is now using (more of) the uncached RAM?

Tried that allready.  ;o)  Same thing.  I removed 32Mb of memory
so now all I have is 64M, and 2.2.13 is faster than 2.2.14.  I
tried aa1 and the latest 15prepatch but haven't been able to
conclusively say wether either is better than 2.2.14.


--
Mike A. Harris                                     Linux advocate     
Computer Consultant                                  GNU advocate  
Capslock Consulting                          Open Source advocate

Join the FreeMWare project - the goal to produce a FREE program in
which you can run Windows 95/98/NT, and other operating systems.

                    http://www.freemware.org


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo en vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/