Jack Howarth wrote:
Has anyone else noticed this issue under Fedora 9 x86_64
with the 2.6.25.10 or 2.6.26 kernels? I find that if I open
a large text file in vim (as vi), jump to the bottom of the
file and then use the 'k' metakey to scroll up that the scrolling
is not smooth like in earlier Fedora releases. There is a huge
lag in the process of scrolling up. Oddly scrolling down the file
seems to be pretty smooth. This bug is really annoying. I assume
it must be a vim bug.
Jack
When you're scrolling down, the kernel does readahead, so it's fast.
When you're scrolling up, it's pretty much all demand paging, so it's
going to disk each time. The difference is probably related to how the
kernel is managing the memory on your workload. I suspect that in the
past it was paging in large chunks (see the vm.page-cluster sysctl) on
each disk read, so it was still reading faster than you could notice the
lag, and for some reason it has decided that's no longer a good idea due
to memory pressue. I haven't noticed this problem on my F9 x86_64 system.
-- Chris
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