Bill Moseley wrote: > Since moving my Laptop from 2.4.22 to 2.6.5 I've noticed that when daily > cron runs (I think it's updatedb, but I see "find" in top) the machine > is almost unusable it's so unresponsive. With 2.4.22 there was latency, > but it was still usable, but now I really just have to wait for the cron > job to finish. > > Any suggestions where to look at why this is happening with this new > kernel? > > I just looked at my config and realize I enabled CONFIG_PREEMPT in the > kernel. I would expect that to help this situation. Is that an > incorrect assumption?
I saw a kernel dev list thread on KernelTrap in which Andrew Morton said that CONFIG_PREEMPT does not help all the time, and sometimes may even hurt. Try turning it off and see if performance improves. FWIW, I noticed something similar when I moved from KDE 3.1.5 on Sarge to 3.2 on Sid - sound skipped much more often than before (which was almost never). I was already on the 2.6 kernel series before moving to Sid. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
