Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6

Marc-Christian Petersen (m.c.p@wolk-project.de)
Tue, 3 Jun 2003 19:03:49 +0200


On Tuesday 03 June 2003 18:59, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

Hi again,

> well, very easy one:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/largefile bs=16384 count=131072
> then use your mouse, your apps, switch between them, use them, _w/o_
> pauses, delay, stops or kinda that. If _that_ will work flawlessly for
> everyone, then it is fixed, if not, it _needs_ to be fixed.
I forgot to mention. If you have more than 2GB free memory (the above one will
create a 2GB file), the test is useless.

Have less memory free, so the machine will swap, doesn't matter if the same
disk or another or whatever!

ciao, Marc

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