From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 11 19:21:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA17658 for current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 19:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pluto.plutotech.com (ken@mail.plutotech.com [206.168.67.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA17648 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 19:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ken@localhost) by pluto.plutotech.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA02043; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 20:20:45 -0600 (MDT) From: Kenneth Merry Message-Id: <199708120220.UAA02043@pluto.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: Jerky mouse motion in -current In-Reply-To: from Tom Bartol at "Aug 11, 97 12:26:42 pm" To: bartol@salk.edu (Tom Bartol) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 20:20:45 -0600 (MDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tom Bartol wrote... > Is anyone else out there experiencing very jerky mouse motion under slight > load (i.e. compiling a small program) using X and -current built early > 8/11? Could this be a side effect of the new scheduling policy that John > Dyson committed last night? Put this in your config file: options NO_SCHEDULE_MODS I had the same problem, and John says he'll look into it.. That define will disable the scheduling mods; it brings interactive performance under load back to normal for me. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com