From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 1 20:07:20 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D44216A419; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 20:07:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (ns0.blackend.org [82.227.222.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F66413C458; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 20:07:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l91K71RX073436; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:07:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) id l91K71Vl073435; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:07:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:07:00 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jeff Roberson , Marcus Reid , Roman Bogorodskiy Message-ID: <20071001200700.GA73187@abigail.blackend.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jeff Roberson , Marcus Reid , Roman Bogorodskiy 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071001195159.GA69112@redundancy.redundancy.org> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: Subject: Re: SCHED_ULE on desktop system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:07:20 -0000 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