From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Scheduler starvation (2.5.x, 2.6.0-test1)
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:53:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030722195306.GA1176@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030722193917.GA14669@localhost>
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:39:17PM +0200, Jose Luis Domingo Lopez wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 July 2003, at 20:41:42 +0200,
> Felipe Alfaro Solana 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.
Yes, I get the same thing with KDE 3.1. Are you using KDE or Gnome? And if
so, what version?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-22 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-07-22 15:14 ` Scheduler starvation (2.5.x, 2.6.0-test1) Tom Felker
2003-07-22 16:04 ` Martin Zwickel
2003-07-22 18:41 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-22 19:39 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2003-07-22 19:53 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-07-22 22:28 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2003-07-22 20:20 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-22 20:55 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-07-22 1:34 Simon Kirby
2003-07-22 17:28 ` Apurva Mehta
2003-07-22 18:48 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-22 20:37 ` Apurva Mehta
2003-07-22 21:33 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-23 8:18 ` Apurva Mehta
2003-07-23 16:41 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-23 19:03 ` Apurva Mehta
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