Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] O3int interactivity for 2.5.74-mm2 | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | Date | 07 Jul 2003 11:13:56 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 05:19, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:36, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > I'm seeing extreme X starvation with this patch under 2.5.74-mm2 when > > starting a CPU hogger: > > > > 1. Start a KDE session. > > 2. Launch a Konsole > > 3. Launch Konqueror > > 4. Launch XMMS > > 5. Make XMMS play an MP3 file > > 6. On the Konsole terminal, run "while true; do a=2; done" > > > > When the "while..." is run, X starves completely for ~5 seconds (e.g. > > the mouse cursor doesn't respond to my input events). After those 5 > > seconds, the mouse cursor goes jerky for a while (~2 seconds) and then > > the system gets responsive. > > Aha! > > Thanks to Felipe who picked this up I was able to find the one bug causing me > grief. The idle detection code was allowing the sleep_avg to get to > ridiculously high levels. This is corrected in the following replacement > O3int patch. Note this fixes the mozilla issue too. Kick arse!!
Yeah! I can't reproduce the bug anymore :-) Good work!
Is there any tunable to make the scheduler adjust the interactivity/CPU usage a little bit faster? Just after launching XMMS and make it play, moving the Konqueror window like crazy makes XMMS skip for a few seconds.
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