Re: 2.4.4 sluggish under fork load

J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:16:19 +0200

On 04.28 Peter Osterlund wrote:
>
> Another thing is that the bash loop "while true ; do /bin/true ; done" is
> not possible to interrupt with ctrl-c.
>

Just tried that under 2.4.4 on two terminals at the same time and the system
even noticed it. Both cpus were running at about 45%user+55%sys, and was
able to use balsa to read mail (disk access) and both loops stopped
immediatley under Ctrl-C.

-- 
J.A. Magallon                                          #  Let the source
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                              #  be with you, Luke... 


Linux werewolf 2.4.4 #1 SMP Sat Apr 28 11:45:02 CEST 2001 i686


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