I saw this performance issue in both the sgi "stock: 2.4.2 and dev 2.4.4
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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
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> Are you running the released kernel or the development tree? There are some
> very distinct issues with memory consumption in the 2.4.4 tree right now.
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> Steve
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> > It's very possible that that's the case, pine, that is, but it's NOT only
> > pine which is slow. It is pretty much all operations, in X. This was NOT
> > the case before however. The only real difference right now, is the advent
> > of XFS. I did a full backup of my system, before reinstalling, and now
> > things are slower. I've tried some things here on the list, biosize,
> > logbuff, etc. I've DEFINITELY gained a noticable amount of speed. I need
> > to tweak something else now. My DMA settings are not an issue, I've got
> > everything turned up as high as my hardware allows. Not to mention, if
> > this was a scsi system, hdparm won't to crap for me. I'm experimenting
> > with this FS on my desktop to see if it's alright for oracle to run on.
> > That may give us some performance increase there, also, I'm trying to
> > tweak it so I know what to do in the event of a performance issue.
> >
> > --
> > Austin Gonyou
> > Systems Architect, CCNA
> > Coremetrics, Inc.
> > Phone: 512-796-9023
> > email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
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