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.
Steve
> 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.
>
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> Austin Gonyou
> Systems Architect, CCNA
> Coremetrics, Inc.
> Phone: 512-796-9023
> email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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