Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 01:40:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 01:40:43 -0500 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:17294 "HELO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 01:40:42 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 07:50:59 +0100 (CET) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: Ingo Molnar To: Aaron Lehmann Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Robert Love , Subject: Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3 In-Reply-To: <20030307064552.GA21885@vitelus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1003 Lines: 27 On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > > But it was definitely there. 3-5 second _pauses_. Not slowdowns. > > I can second this. Using Linux 2.5.5x, untarring a file while > compiling could cause X to freeze for several seconds at a time. > I haven't seen this problem recently, [...] i believe this is rather due to IO scheduling / VM throttling. Andrew added some nice improvements lately, so this should really not happen with 2.5.64 kernels. > [...] though I do experience my share of XMMS skips. okay, could you please test BK-curr, or 2.5.64+combo-patch? Do the skips still persist? Did they get worse perhaps? I guess it might take a few days of music listening while doing normal desktop activity, to get a good feel of it though. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/