Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:32:40 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: interactive task starvation |
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* Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 March 2006 01:28, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 01:19 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > What you're fixing with unfairness is worth pursuing. The 'ls' issue just > > > blows my mind though for reasons I've just said. Where are the magic > > > cycles going when nothing else is running that make it take ten times > > > longer? > > > > What I was talking about when I mentioned scrolling was rendering. > > I'm talking about the long standing report that 'ls' takes 10 times > longer on 2.6 90% of the time you run it, and doing 'ls | cat' makes > it run as fast as 2.4. This is what Willy has been fighting with.
ah. That's i think a gnome-terminal artifact - it does some really stupid dynamic things while rendering, it 'skips' certain portions of rendering, depending on the speed of scrolling. Gnome 2.14 ought to have that fixed i think.
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