Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Scheduler starvation (2.5.x, 2.6.0-test1) | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | Date | 22 Jul 2003 22:20:22 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 21:39, Jose Luis Domingo Lopez wrote: > > Could you please test 2.6.0-test1-mm2? It includes some scheduler fixes > > from Con Kolivas that will help in reducing or eliminating your > > starvation issues. > > > I was having the same jumpy mouse behaviuor with 2.6.0-test1, and on an > otherwise idle Pentium III at 600 MHz box, scrolling a very simple HTML > page in Mozilla makes xmms skip audio. > > Then I tried 2.6.0-test1-mm2, and several things happened: now scrolling > an HTML page in Mozilla seems not to affect MP3 playback with XMMS, but > this is the only possitive effect. Focusing windows raises them way > slower than in 2.6.0-test1, scheduler starvation is constant (just try > to do something like going to another virtual desktop), and then, after > several minutes, only XMMS got CPU time, the rest of the applications > (at least, those running over X-Window) get stalled.
We know there are still some issues and we need help from people like you. It's testing from a big enough user population what allows us to fix things that don't work as expected :-)
If you can, please, keem trying/testing/using the -mm series of the kernel. Con Kolivas is dedicating a lot of effort on the scheduler issus, and I wouldn't like this effort to be useless in the end.
Thanks!
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