From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 19 18:22:39 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA95E16A46D for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:22:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA27B13C474 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:22:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so2189190waf for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:22:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=aajbCEAigfcBDhlYiMQGPtDtkfb+YLEXBgCEKvKy7Y8=; b=V8XIKjyzzHBZH9bD46PicFcQ2GYNOLClT88wl5uksuAxhSQxiW0k1tOXe4VoPYyW8hJkWmFusYlG7/J4SevdhKGqYtXiAAXvIj1NJryI9ibW3oPhbtA8UZbYiCmsvZv4HX/rW7mSIvLFB/KceTdnA03L4tXyco2RLQSK3/b+DVg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=B7Sf7bKPajQTn3t4Mpxzq6usDHp2Utx7zXH7hFO4sIwkOBxPEtbfgFotXfT6urQz2g1s1pEJMmKvohNIcLALn/wm4JxB0luAjj8KKidBqje3GB2em/TeIxRNR3kWpS4eEhzkPrSjHRnNL0UTi+huwBv6X23CvQJfNkqvxVsBaiY= Received: by 10.115.90.1 with SMTP id s1mr344606wal.1195496553068; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:22:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.13.15 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:22:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:22:33 -0800 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Anish Mistry" In-Reply-To: <200711191254.08134.mistry.7@osu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200710171228.39123.mistry.7@osu.edu> <472ED12B.7040200@gmx.de> <200711070953.22154.mistry.7@osu.edu> <200711191254.08134.mistry.7@osu.edu> Cc: "\[LoN\]Kamikaze" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound (still a problem -BETA3) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:22:40 -0000 On Nov 19, 2007 9:53 AM, Anish Mistry wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Anish Mistry wrote: > > On Monday 05 November 2007, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > > > Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 05:53:47PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > > > >> Anish Mistry wrote: > > > >>> On Thursday 18 October 2007, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > > >>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:28:30PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote: > > > >>>>> I just updated to RELENG_7 from 6.2 and I'm running into > > > >>>>> some really annoying issues with jerky mouse movement and > > > >>>>> skipping sound. This seems to be similar to: > > > >>>>> Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow > > > >>>>> This happens both with 4BSD and ULE. > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> I seems to happen when I'm compiling ports and a new > > > >>>>> cc/bzip2/sh process fires off (I'm just watching top), I'll > > > >>>>> get the skip/freezeup. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> [...] > > > >>>> > > > >>>> Using ULE and UP kernel (i.e. without SMP etc.) helped a bit > > > >>>> the things but it's still very annoying to use firefox > > > >>>> during ports build. I see this lag/freeze on all boxes I > > > >>>> use with 7.0, but it's true that with a fast machine people > > > >>>> can ignore the problem, it's less obvious than with a 1GHz > > > >>>> box for example. > > > >>> > > > >>> Yeah, I'm still seeing this behavior. Does anyone have > > > >>> suggestions on debugging? > > > >>> > > > >>> Thanks, > > > >> > > > >> I did post the solution in this thread. > > > > > > > > It has nothing to do with the mouse. > > > > > > Does the problem persist for you? It's gone for me, even with > > > moused. > > > > Yes, the problem seems to have been fixed. I'm back to > > kern.hz=1000 and removed FULL_PREEMPTION. No skipping. > It looks like I spoke too soon. I've just tried to compile miro and > as it was compiling the boost-python dependency I noticed the problem > again. Switching kern.hz="100" seems to fix the problem. Can any of > the developers in this area reproduce the issue? It's pretty easy to > reproduce on my 1.33Ghz Athlon. > There is an ithread priority inversion bug that might be causing this. The fix for that should be going in shortly. -Kip