Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:14:36 +1000 (EST) | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Staircase scheduler v7.4 |
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Michael Buesch wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 26 June 2004 03:11, you wrote: > > Quoting Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>: > > > But as the load grows, the system is usable as with load 0.0. > > > And it really should be usable with 76.0% nice. ;) No problem here. > > > This really high load is not correct. > > > > There was the one clear bug that Adrian Drzewiecki found (thanks!) that is easy > > to fix. Can you see if this has any effect before I go searching elsewhere? > > > > Con > > > > The problem did not go away with this patch. > I did some stress test: > > I downloaded latest kdeextragear-3 package from CVS and > ran ./configure script many times. > Directly after booting the script runs fine. > But as the uptime increases (I'm now at 15 minutes, when > the script is stuck completely for the first time), > my problem gets worse. > At the very beginning, there was no problem running the script, > but over time problems increased with uptime. > on 5 till 10 minutes of uptime, the configure began to > stuck for 3 or 4 seconds on several (reproducable!) places.# > (you can see these places as nice "holes" in the CPU graph > of gkrellm) > Now (15 min) it's completely stuck and doesn't get a timeslice. > > 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. ;)
Almost certainly they are one and the same thing. I have been away and unable to attend to this just yet but it appears there's some sanity check missing from the "I've just forked" logic I introduced to 7.4. I'll look into it further asap.
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