Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:58:07 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8.1-mm3 |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Thomas Davis <tadavis@lbl.gov> wrote:
>>3) Interactivity performance when compiling a kernel (make rpm) sucks. I have a Dell Poweredge 400SC, with a Hyper threaded P4/1GB of ram, ATI Radeon 9600 based video. Load average jumps to the 4's, and stays there - while each cpu in the hyper thread shows about 50% idle time. Mouse pointer jumps all over the place, mouse clicks are lost, menus are slow to drop down, etc.. > > > Ingo found a ghastly performance problem with X, but that'll be present in > 2.6.8.1 as well.
The other thing is I may have botched moving my scheduler on top of smtnice. I hadn't tested that too well (I have an HT system, but it doesn't run X).
If you get time, could you try turning off CONFIG_SCHED_SMT - if that still doesn't help, try turning off hyperthreading completely. Thanks. - 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/
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