Since switching from RedHat 8 to RedHat 9, my machine becomes very sluggish if one process is doing a lot of disk access. Has anything changed such that IDE disk access takes higher priority now? I expect an application relying on disk access to perform worse, but this sucks the life out of other applications (or even moving/minimizing windows). All updates as of June 28 have been applied.
I know it is not swap file related, because I don't even use a swap file as of a couple weeks ago. On my machine, RH 9 (or kernel) was using the swap file when I don't believe it should be. I had 2 gnome-terminal windows open and was doing a tar backup to a SCSI tape drive; after a couple hours 70MB of swap space was used and no other apps had been run. I did a 'swapoff -a' and everything was cleared out of the swap files. On RH 8, I rarely saw more than 1-2MB in swap. System is an IBM ThinkPad A21p, 850MHz Mobile P-III, 512MB memory. Kernel 2.4.20-18.9. If anyone has any suggestions on anything that I may have configured incorrectly that could have brought this on, I'd appreciate it. I've run RH Linux from the early 2.0/3.0 days and never seen problems like this. Thanks, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
