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Mozilla Firebird/0.6 StumbleUpon/1.64

Description of problem:
I was suffering severe performance problems with extremely heavy disk IO
bringing the system to a crawl at times. This is a desktop machine btw. I
compiled a stock kernel from kernel.org, and that fixed the performance problems
(or made them more normal anyway :). 

My problem is that I work on Wine, currently for a living, so the ability to run
it is important. Without the NPTL patches, Wine is not happy (even though glibc
should disable all support for it without the kernel patches iirc). Other apps
are fine, Wine suffers bizarre lockups, odd symptoms etc that disappear when
using the standard Red Hat kernel.

So, this is to let you know of the problem (though I am not alone in seeing
this), and also an enquiry as to whether there is a way to switch off any
patches you added related to disk/vm scheduling.... or any NPTL patches I could
apply against the stock Linus kernel tree that might make Wine happier.

thanks -mike

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Red Hat 9 for a while. Start evo, firebird, emacs, terminals etc
2. Notice how the disk is constantly thrashing, and how switching virtual
desktops takes several seconds.
3. Compile and install 2.4.20 kernel
4. Go "aaah that's nice"
5. Realise Wine doesn't work. Go back to red hat standard kernel.
    

Actual Results:  Performance sucked.

Expected Results:  Performance should have been mind blowingly good, esp with
all those patches.

Additional info:

Athlon 1200, 2 swap partitions, 256mb memory, 800mb swap, modern 80gig hard disk.

Marking "high" because it makes the machine really unpleasant to use, very
frustrating. Feel free to lower priority if you have more pressing matters.....