Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:12:51 +0200 | From | Jose Luis Domingo Lopez <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] O10int for interactivity |
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On Monday, 28 July 2003, at 00:55:43 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> There's a known problem with OpenOffice and its use of sched_yield(). > sched_yield() got changed in 2.6 and it makes OO unusable when there is > other stuff happening. > > Apparently it has been fixed in recent OpenOffice versions. If you cannot > reproduce this problem in any other application I'd be saying it is "not a > bug". > This must be the reason behind a simple "Save..." of a little OpenOffice Writer document taking 3 seconds with no activity on the box, and two minutes when "make bzImage", or "yes" or anyhting CPU intensive.
On the other hand, OO saves files (which is a CPU-bound process) only marginally slower under heavy hard disk read activity than on an idle system. Tested with 2.6.0-test2 and with 2.6.0-test2 with latest scheduler patch from Ingo (2.6.0-test1-G6).
Regards,
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