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Date:      Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:07:00 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, Marcus Reid <marcus@blazingdot.com>, Roman Bogorodskiy <novel@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: SCHED_ULE on desktop system
Message-ID:  <20071001200700.GA73187@abigail.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071001195159.GA69112@redundancy.redundancy.org>
References:  <20070916061932.GA93480@underworld.novel.ru> <20070918061806.GA85425@blazingdot.com> <20070918004027.G558@10.0.0.1> <20071001101525.GA1530@gothic.blackend.org> <20071001112845.N583@10.0.0.1> <20071001185454.GA72080@abigail.blackend.org> <20071001195159.GA69112@redundancy.redundancy.org>

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On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:51:59PM -0700, David E. Thiel wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:54:54PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> > I use nvidia or nv driver (nvidia one is a bit less worse).  The lag can
> > even appears with 4% of CPU usage according to top(1).
> > Thanks to your remarks and my tests, I'm now sure it's scheduler
> > independent.  It seems 7-CURRENT is slower than 6.X regarding I/O :(
> > For info the box is a 1.2GHz Athlon with 1GB of RAM and swap is never
> > used.
> 
> This may sound like a silly question, but what terminal emulator are you
> using? I found that xfce's Terminal gave me awful performance, taking a
> really long time to redraw, but xterm and roxterm sped things up a lot. I
> think for me part of this is related to the nvidia driver breakage with
> the new Xorg. Can you see if you can duplicate that behavior with xterm?
>

I use x11/rxvt-devel but the lag also exists on Xorg 7.2.  I feel it has
nothing to do with Xorg.
On other hand, it's true any GTK based application is most of time worse
in term of performance.  Building a port can freeze or slow down
webpages loading in Firefox...

-- 
Marc



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