From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 28 21: 5:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92E7837BA89 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:05:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 252 invoked by uid 268); 29 Mar 2000 05:05:14 -0000 Message-ID: <20000329050514.251.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> Subject: Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches In-Reply-To: <200003290308.TAA56364@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Mar 28, 2000 07:08:57 pm" To: Matthew Dillon Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 07:05:14 +0200 (SAST) Cc: Gary Jennejohn , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: "Geoff Rehmet" From: "Geoff Rehmet" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon writes : > :I'm running a UP machine with Matt's latest changes. I was just > :compiling a new kernel and noticed the my PS/2 mouse under X was very > :sluggish. I never noticed this sort of behavior before the changes, > :even while doing ``make -j8 buildworld''. > : > :The compile was running on a UW SCSI disk on an Adaptec aic7880 Ultra > :SCSI adapter on my motherboard, in case it matters. > : > :Looks like something has been verschlimmbessert (a wonderful German > :word which means "made worse through improvement" :) > : > :-------- > :Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de garyj@fkr.cpqcorp.net gj@freebsd.org > > Ok, I'll take a look at it... the most likely cause is that I somehow > broke need_resched. Not impossible, I'll check it out. I'm seeing the same symptoms while doing a make - my console performance is very jumpy and sluggish. Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geoffr@is.co.za; geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za; csgr@freebsd.org tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message