Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 2003 01:10:08 -0400 | From | "Murray J. Root" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test6 scheduling(?) oddness |
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:55:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Murray J. Root" <murrayr@brain.org> wrote: > > > > The render finishes in the same 30 minutes, then oowriter starts. > > oowriter takes about 3 seconds to load if no rendering is going on. > > OpenOffice uses sched_yield() in strange ways which causes it to > get hopelessly starved on 2.6 kernels. I think RH have a fixed version, > but I don't know if that has propagated into the upstream yet. > > So... Don't worry about OpenOffice too much. Is the problem reproducible > with other applications?
Nope - even tried it with KDE apps. Write it off to OpenOffice, not test6.
That doesn't explain the major time increase of the render, though. 200% for 2.5.65 vs 2.6.0-test6 or 150% for 2.6.0-test5 vs 2.6.0-test6 is a bit extreme.
-- Murray J. Root
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