Re: What's the deal McNeil? Bad interactive behavior in X w/ RH's

[Michael B Allen]

> On Tuesday 22 April 2003 09:48, Michael B Allen wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
>> I'm running Red Hat 7.3 with their stock 2.4.18-3 kernel on an IBM
>> T30. Once every few hours X locks up for 5-10 seconds while the disk
>> grinds. If I type in an Xterm the characters are not echoed until the
<snip>
>> I would like very much for this behavior to go away as it is extremely
>> annoying. If there is a patch please let me know where I can get it.
> There are some hacks. One by Andrea Arcangeli, one by Neil Schemenauer and
> one
> by Con Kolivas and me. Search the archives please (lowlat elevator/io
> scheduler)

Ok, I searched a little using the Googler at indiana.edu's archives but
nothing jumped up and bit me. I'm not too excited about applying a patch
snarfed out of an e-mail anywat. I'm surprised no one else has not
complained about this enough to the point where you guys don't have a
canned answer with a link. Is this problem not considered important?

Does anyone know which RH patch in the 2.4.18-10 RPM adds this elevator
throughput "improvement"? What identifiers would such a patch have in it?

Thanks,
Mike

PS: Why are there only "hacks"? Is this not considered important?