[ltp] general performance question on R51

[Takis Diakoumis]

Hi 

thanks for the responses. 

i've stopped using cpufreqd and instead left it to the kernel governor
with ondemand.
i have also just compiled and installed kernel 2.6.12.3.

i have already noticed a difference with the momentary 'hang' only
occuring once or twice since. so some progress there.

i do have laptop-mode installed. i will try and disable its use - though
it seems like a fine line between that and battery time with the drive
at full throttle all the time. i'll try it.

i have the battery.sh script for the acpi action that invokes
laptop-mode with hdparm from the ibm-acpi source. i'm not that familiar
with hdparm (and have read it can render your drive useless) so i don't
want to tinker with it too much. if anyone has a good working hdparm
setting for battery.sh it would be appreciated.

anything else would be appreciated.
thanks

Takis


On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 15:26 +0200, Paul RIVIER wrote:
> >
> >i notice very brief system hangs every now and then - usually when
> >accessing a large directory through something like nautilus, or starting
> >an application or even compiling some small code snippet. the hang is
> >usually not for longer than about a second or two. the mouse if in
> >motion will skip across the screen, gkrellm which i have running will
> >freeze, if i'm playing some music with xmms or similar it will pause
> >briefly then continue as if a cd is skipping or something. i understand
> >that single drive reads across partitions can be pretty intesive though
> >i did not expect this sort of performance.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Hi,
> this behaviour is not normal, I can load my system without hanging it.
> How do you manage cpu frequency scaling ?
> Do you absolutly need 2.6.11 custom ? Please give a try to 2.6.12, seems 
> to be a more reliable release.
> 
> Paul RIVIER