Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Scheduler starvation (2.5.x, 2.6.0-test1) | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | Date | 22 Jul 2003 20:48:34 +0200 |
| |
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 19:28, Apurva Mehta wrote: > * Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com> [2003-07-22 11:50]: > > I keep seeing cases where browsing in mozilla / galeon will suck away all > > CPU from X updating the mouse, xmms playing, etc., for about a second as > > Mozilla renders a page (which should take 50 ms to render, but anyway..). > > I do not have any problems with mouse response, but xmms sure does > skip a whole lot more on my 2.6.0-test1 running on a PIII 500 MHz, 192 > MB RAM. > > I usually run Opera and the skipping occurs often while switching > between tabs with the mouse (not when it is done with the keyboard). > > Also, severe xmms skipping occurs while scrolling through PDF files > (in Acrobat) while the first few seconds of a song are playing. The > song virtually stops while I scroll. After the song plays for a bit, > scrolling through a PDF makes no difference. > > Sometimes, xmms pops up in between songs saying that it could not > detect the audio device! This occurs mainly during heavy disk i/o or > cpu usage.
Could you please test 2.6.0-test1-mm2 instead? It has additional scheduler fixes which should improve your overall experience.
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/
| |