Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262131AbTKQUEk (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:04:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262152AbTKQUEk (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:04:40 -0500 Received: from amber.ccs.neu.edu ([129.10.116.51]:15608 "EHLO amber.ccs.neu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262131AbTKQUDj (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:03:39 -0500 Subject: Re: Bad interactivity with 2.6-test9 From: Stan Bubrouski To: Rik van Riel Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1069099418.23780.2.camel@duergar> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:03:38 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1065 Lines: 26 On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:54, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Stan Bubrouski wrote: > > > When I start watching a video under mplayer and have something like > > spamassassin doing a sa-learn in an x-term if I start the sa-learn > > before mplayer and then play a video, the sa-learn makes no progress > > until I switch away from mplayer (playing full screen). After which > > sa-learn continues to filter through messages much faster, and even > > while mplayer is going is still progressing much faster than before I > > switched away from mplayer the first time. > > > > Very odd. Con anyone ideas? > > Looks like scheduler starvation. Con ? Seems like it. I'll do some testing later to see exactly how consistently I can reproduce this. I have noticed this numerous times all with -test9. -sb - 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/