Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266007AbUAFAgq (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:36:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266033AbUAFAgq (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:36:46 -0500 Received: from mail-09.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.41]:22464 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266007AbUAFAfn (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:35:43 -0500 Message-ID: <3FFA0271.5080801@cyberone.com.au> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 11:33:53 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willy Tarreau CC: Lincoln Dale , Soeren Sonnenburg , Con Kolivas , Mark Hahn , Linux Kernel , gillb4@telusplanet.net Subject: Re: xterm scrolling speed - scheduling weirdness in 2.6 ?! References: <200401041242.47410.kernel@kolivas.org> <200401040815.54655.kernel@kolivas.org> <20040103233518.GE3728@alpha.home.local> <200401041242.47410.kernel@kolivas.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20040104195316.02151e98@171.71.163.14> <3FF7DA24.40802@cyberone.com.au> <20040104120720.GA14497@alpha.home.local> <3FF8B52B.3060003@cyberone.com.au> <20040105183733.GA2550@alpha.home.local> In-Reply-To: <20040105183733.GA2550@alpha.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1149 Lines: 32 Willy Tarreau wrote: >Hi Nick, > >during a kernel compilation today while browsing the net on another >virtual screen, I noticed extremely long delays to redraw the screen. >My setup is the following : > - kernel 2.6.1-rc1-mm1 + w29p2 > - X either reniced to -10 or 0 (doesnt make a difference) > - window maker > - opera open on a fairly simple page (marc.theaimsgroup.com) in VS 1 > - 2 xterms on VS2 > - 4 xterms in VS3, one of which runs make -j 3 bzImage, another one 'top'. > >-> going from VS3 to VS2 then VS1 takes up to 5 or 6 seconds redrawing > parts of windows on each screen. I also noticed that make -j 8 dep > blocked the xterm it was run in for about a third of a second about > twice a second. It does not seem to slow the process however since > it takes the same amount of time as make -j 8 dep >/dev/null. > Hi Willy, Yeah the w29p2 patch you got is broken. I'll fix it. - 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/