Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265157AbTFYW65 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:58:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265178AbTFYW5S (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:57:18 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:64974 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265166AbTFYW5B (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:57:01 -0400 Subject: Re: patch O1int for 2.5.73 - interactivity work From: Andy Pfiffer To: Felipe Alfaro Solana Cc: Con Kolivas , linux kernel mailing list , Mike Galbraith In-Reply-To: <1056577981.603.3.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> References: <200306260209.45020.kernel@kolivas.org> <1056577981.603.3.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1056582622.1200.5.camel@andyp.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 25 Jun 2003 16:10:23 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1438 Lines: 35 On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 14:53, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 18:09, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I've used the corner cases described that cause a lot of the interactivity > > problems to develop this patch. > This patch is indeed much better than the ones posted before. In fact, > it's really, really hard for me to make XMMS skip audio. It feels much > better in general, but there are still some rough edges when the system > is under load. For example, the mouse cursor on an X session doesn't > move smoothly, and feels a little jumpy. It can be somewhat fixed by > renicing the X server to -20. I'm running with this patch on my dual-proc desktop right now. I agree: with a make -j20 going, the mouse became non-responsive for about 1 second at a time. Renicing the X server to -20 greatly improved the response of my desktop with this patch under load. I could switch virtual desktops (blackbox), move the mouse to focus on an aterm and type a command (and get a response back), and not wait too long for evolution to repaint or open a piece of email. I could tell that something was grinding away on my system, but it was still tolerable. Andy - 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/