With 2.6.22-rc3-mm1, I've got a long-running video transcoding going on. In other windows, I'm compiling, reading email, etc. with no noticeable problems.
If I fire up lguest and leave it sitting at a shell prompt for a couple moments, when I return to type something at the prompt, it can take 2-3 seconds for my input to echo. Once it starts responding, typing latency disappears. Suspend the other app and the latency disappears. The system isn't swapping and has basically no I/O load. Ok, my transcoding just finished as I was writing this. So I've reproduced the problem with this Python script that I had handy: memload.py: #!/usr/bin/python a = "a" * 16 * 1024 * 1024 while 1: b = a[1:] + "b" a = b[1:] + "c" -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/