Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staircase scheduler v7.4
From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
To: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
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       Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:55:51 +0200
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On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 21:28 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
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> Quoting Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>:
> > On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 19:29 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > 
> > > Now another "problem":
> > > Maybe it's because I'm tired, but it seems like
> > > your fix-patch made moving windows in X11 is less smooth.
> > > I wanted to mention it, just in case there's some other
> > > person, who sees this behaviour, too. In case I'm the
> > > only one seeing it, you may forget it. ;)
> > 
> > I can see the same with 7.4-1 (that's 2.6.7-ck2 plus the fix-patch): X11
> > feels sluggish while moving windows around. Simply by loading a Web page
> > into Konqueror and dragging Evolution over it, makes me able to
> > reproduce this problem.
> > 
> > Doing the same on 2.6.7-mm3 is totally smooth, however.
> 
> I think staircase-7.7 fixed this, too. (for me).
> Have a try.

Staircase 7.7 over 2.6.7-ck2 still feels somewhat sluggish... Renicing X
to -5 seems to improve a bit, but -mm3 is smoother and does not require
renicing the X server.

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