From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 30 12:50:56 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 E86E416A417 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:50:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F5A713C4CE; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:50:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <4777942D.9010209@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:50:53 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kip Macy References: <200710171228.39123.mistry.7@osu.edu> <472ED12B.7040200@gmx.de> <200711070953.22154.mistry.7@osu.edu> <200711191254.08134.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Anish Mistry , "\[LoN\]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: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:50:57 -0000 Kip Macy wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Anish, Can you confirm that this fix helped for you? i.e. do you still see the problem? Kris