Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.4.20-ac1 hangs IBM Thinkpad | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 10 Dec 2002 16:49:41 +0000 |
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On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 12:53, J.D. Hood wrote: > I have also stopped using 2.4.20-ac1 on my ThinkPad. > It performs much worse than 2.4.20-pre8-ac1 when running > large applications such as OpenOffice. (It never crashed > on me, though.) Having read the recent thread on changes > to the scheduler and yield(), I suspect that the problem > is related to that, since the 2.4-ac series has the O(1) > scheduler.
Thats a bug in openoffice (or more accurately in the glibc thread library). Our yield now does what it is *supposed* to do. Unfortunately glibc is coded to rely on what used to happen. Andrea has a nice fix for this which I'll probably merge soon
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