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From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What exactly are the issues with 2.6.0-test10 preempt?
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 10:09:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2003.11.30.09.09.28.112431@smurf.noris.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20031124191459.99375.qmail@web40902.mail.yahoo.com

Hi, Bradley Chapman wrote:

> So what exactly is the problem?

I'm seeing
- User Interface corruption under X. That shows as random processes
crashing with SIGFPE (interestingly, often two unrelated X processes crash
at the same time -- sometimes one of them is the server) or SEGV, 

I just switched to -test11 and turned off preemption. I don't see any more
crashes or weird behavior, but now performance sucks -- console scrolling
(frame buffer) stalls for seconds, keyboard repeat likewise, and the X
server suddenly decides it wants twice the CPU (60% instead of 30%).

I'll rebuild test11 with preempt and check whether there are any changes.
(Yes I know, changing two variables at the same time was somewhat stupid.)

-- 
Matthias Urlichs   |   {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de   |  smurf@smurf.noris.de
Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de
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If you're careful enough, nothing bad or good will ever happen to you.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-30  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-24 19:14 What exactly are the issues with 2.6.0-test10 preempt? Bradley Chapman
2003-11-24 21:08 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2003-11-24 21:29   ` Bradley Chapman
2003-11-24 21:47     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2003-11-24 21:55       ` Bradley Chapman
2003-11-24 21:59   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-24 22:26     ` Bradley Chapman
2003-11-24 22:32       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-24 22:45         ` Bradley Chapman
2003-11-24 23:00           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-24 23:45             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-25  7:55         ` Jos Hulzink
2003-11-24 22:41       ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-24 22:51         ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-25  1:37           ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-25 17:22           ` bill davidsen
2003-11-24 22:57     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2003-11-25  7:17     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2003-11-25 16:20       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-30  9:09 ` Matthias Urlichs [this message]
     [not found] <20031124224514.56242.qmail@web40908.mail.yahoo.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0311241452550.15101@home.osdl.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-11-24 23:50   ` Andi Kleen
2003-11-25  0:00     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-25  0:05       ` Andi Kleen
2003-11-25  0:16         ` Chris Mason
2003-11-25 18:13 kernel
2003-11-25 18:14 root
2003-11-25 18:31 kernel
2003-11-26  9:30 ` Jens Axboe

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