From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261899AbTD3KEK (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:04:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261903AbTD3KEK (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:04:10 -0400 Received: from dns.toxicfilms.tv ([150.254.37.24]:59530 "EHLO dns.toxicfilms.tv") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261899AbTD3KEJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:04:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:16:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Maciej Soltysiak To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: must-fix list for 2.6.0 In-Reply-To: <20030429155731.07811707.akpm@digeo.com> Message-ID: References: <20030429155731.07811707.akpm@digeo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > kernel/ > ------- > > - O(1) scheduler starvation, poor behaviour seems unresolved. > > Jens: "I've been running 2.5.67-mm3 on my workstation for two days, and > it still doesn't feel as good as 2.4. It's not a disaster like some > revisisons ago, but it still has occasional CPU "stalls" where it feels > like a process waits for half a second of so for CPU time. That's is very > noticable." Well, i had similar problems with 2.5 stalling, but now that i disabled preemtible kernel, it is better now. Are there no complaints about preemt? Also there is one issue, i am not sure if this may be a kernel issue, but with setiathome running in a X desktop environment all apps work fine, but when i run openoffice, openoffice responds with 5 second delay. I remember somebody noticing a problem with evolution that was related to a kernel problem. Maybe i could help sorting it out? Regards, Maciej