Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 02:35:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 02:35:21 -0500 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:56460 "HELO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 02:35:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:45:35 +0100 (CET) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: Ingo Molnar To: Mike Galbraith Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , , Subject: Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3 In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030307075851.00cf5448@pop.gmx.net> 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: 993 Lines: 27 On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Weeeeell, FWIW my box (p3-500/128mb/rage128) disagrees. UP box, right? > I can still barely control the box when a make -j5 bzImage is running > under X/KDE in one terminal and a vmstat (SCHED_RR) in another. I'm not > swapping, though a bit of idle junk does page out. IOW, I think I'm > seeing serious cpu starvation. which precise scheduler are you using, BK-curr? And to see whether the problem is related to scheduling at all, could you try to renice X to -10? [this is not a solution, this is just a test to see the problem is scheduling related.] is there any way we could exclude/isolate the VM as the source of interactivity problems? Eg. any chance to get more RAM into that box? 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/