Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jun 2003 14:40:35 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.70-mm6 |
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Diego Calleja García <diegocg@teleline.es> wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 19:45:58 +0200 (CEST) > Maciej Soltysiak <solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv> wrote: > > > The interactivity seems to have dropped. Again, with common desktop > > applications: xmms playing with ALSA, when choosing navigating through > > evolution options or browsing with opera, music skipps. > > X is running with nice -10, but with mm5 it ran smoothly. > > Under "heavy" disk usage (when sylpheed finish merging the lkml > messages in the 92M lkml mail folder) X pointer stops moving > (say, 1/8 or 1/6 seconds, very noticeable, pointer stops, windows stop > redrawing, etc).
I've noticed similar. Just a new vague jerkiness.
> System is a dual p3 800; fs is ext3. This odd behaviour > seems to happen since the 2.5.69-mm9 ext3 locking changes. > (well i started testing 2.5.70-mm3 because i'm timid, > but never happened before in mm or mainline)
Might be. There were some CPU scheduler changes a week before 2.5.69-mm9. If it's in ext3 then profiling will probably shake it out. I haven't done a lot of profiling yet.
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