Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-12-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.12.2012, JD wrote: > But it of course did not understand what I would like to accomplish. mkdir ~/kernel git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git kernel After that, you have a complete copy of Linus' tree. You can keep it up to date by doing a git pu

Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-12-01 Thread JD
On 12/01/2012 02:25 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 27.11.2012, JD wrote: However, because of the current kswapd, building a kernel is taking an inordinately long time, so it will be likely 2 or 3 days on my old unicore Athlon64 3700+ before I can boot the new 3.7X Now you can checkout the latest L

Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-12-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.11.2012, JD wrote: > However, because of the current kswapd, building a kernel is taking an > inordinately long time, so it will be likely 2 or 3 days on my old unicore > Athlon64 3700+ before I can boot the new 3.7X Now you can checkout the latest Linus git, the fixes for the mm/kswapd pr

Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-11-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 09:09:09 -0700, JD wrote: On 11/29/2012 08:51 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 00:53:28 -0700, JD wrote: Hi Bruno, Just booted kernel-3.7.0-0.rc7.git1.1 compiled under fc16. 2 issues: While it's getting a bit late in the 3.7 cycle, reporting th

Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-11-29 Thread JD
On 11/29/2012 08:51 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 00:53:28 -0700, JD wrote: Hi Bruno, Just booted kernel-3.7.0-0.rc7.git1.1 compiled under fc16. 2 issues: While it's getting a bit late in the 3.7 cycle, reporting these as regressions upstream is probably a good idea.

Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-11-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 00:53:28 -0700, JD wrote: Hi Bruno, Just booted kernel-3.7.0-0.rc7.git1.1 compiled under fc16. 2 issues: While it's getting a bit late in the 3.7 cycle, reporting these as regressions upstream is probably a good idea. Regressions for the under development kernel se

Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-11-28 Thread JD
On 11/27/2012 02:31 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 13:11:11 -0800, JD wrote: However, because of the current kswapd, building a kernel is taking an inordinately long time, so it will be likely 2 or 3 days on my old unicore Athlon64 3700+ before I can boot the new 3.7X

Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-11-27 Thread JD
One last note (a bandaid, if you will) regarding kswapd: I reniced it to pri 19 and that seems to make rest of apps run much faster. Will start build of latest rawhide nodebug kernel. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin

Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-11-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.11.2012, JD wrote: > However, because of the current kswapd, building a kernel is taking an > inordinately long time, so it will be likely 2 or 3 days on my old unicore > Athlon64 3700+ before I can boot the new 3. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/27/487 -- users mailing list users@lists.fe

Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-11-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 13:11:11 -0800, JD wrote: However, because of the current kswapd, building a kernel is taking an inordinately long time, so it will be likely 2 or 3 days on my old unicore Athlon64 3700+ before I can boot the new 3.7X Can you try the kernel-3.7.0-0.rc7.git1.1.fc19 fr

Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-11-27 Thread JD
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > Upstream is pretty sure they know the causes of the kswapd issues. Two of > the three patches should be in the latest rawhide kernel. So you already > might see better results with that kernel. I would expect the third patch > to make it i