Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 16:25:44 -0500 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interrupt latency problems Message-ID: <F520D3DB-832D-11D7-9B15-0003937E39E0@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <3EBD1D65.1060104@isi.edu>
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Are you using sysmouse for your mouse protocol for X? This used to happen to me all the time in FBSD 4.x before I changed to sysmouse. Dave On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 10:40 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: > On 5/10/2003 5:37 AM, Paul Richards wrote: > > >> I'm having real problems with current with heavy disk activity. >> When working in X and updating ports which causes a lot of disk >> activity >> I get *very* poor interactive responses. Keypresses can not appear for >> seconds and mouse movement is very jerky and unresponsive. >> I'm wondering if something is holding locks a long time in interrupt >> handlers and causing mouse/keyboard interrupts to be lost? >> Since this is caused by heavy disk activity then my first guess would >> be >> the ATA driver. >> Is anyone else seeing anything like this? > > I do, but with SCSI disks and on an SMP box. So I doubt it's the ATA > subsystem alone. > > Lars > -- > Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu> USC Information Sciences > Institute > <smime.p7s>
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