Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932352AbVJLGjt (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:39:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932360AbVJLGjt (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:39:49 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.57]:65153 "EHLO ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932352AbVJLGjs (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:39:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:33:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@localhost.localdomain To: Ingo Molnar cc: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , dwalker@mvista.com, david singleton Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc4-rt1 In-Reply-To: <20051012061455.GA16586@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20051011111454.GA15504@elte.hu> <1129064151.5324.6.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> <20051012061455.GA16586@elte.hu> 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: 905 Lines: 25 On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i'm not sure latency traces will uncover anything useful for this bug. > Your problems could be timer issues: timers going off too fast cause > high keyboard repeat rates, and the same goes for the screensaver. Does > 'sleep 1' work as expected, or is that timing out in an "accelerated" > way too? > I usually recommend doing a 'sleep 10'. It really shows you if things are wrong. If a sleep 1 returns 2 seconds, or 0.5 seconds later it may not be detected. But a sleep 10 returning 20 seconds or 5 seconds later is obvious. Just my 20 cents (inflation - and like my comment I multiplied by 10 ;-) -- Steve - 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/