Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:35:59 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Julio Capote <jcapote@gmail.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Brief window moving delay after idle..
Message-ID:  <20050217233559.GA19140@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <1108671177.17247.6.camel@hatter.wonderland.dn>
References:  <1108671177.17247.6.camel@hatter.wonderland.dn>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:12:57PM -0500, Julio Capote wrote:
> I've been on RELENG_5 for about 1 week now running ULE with PREEMPT.
> Recently, I noticed some strange behavior that could be related to
> scheduling; usually I leave my computer on all night (doing nothing as I
> sleep), But when I'd wake up, and drag a window around, it seems this
> sudden rush of input catches the scheduler by surprise and everything is
> really slow for about 5 seconds. Its a peculiar type of "slow" since
> everything moves smoothly, just 1-2 seconds behind, theres no stuttering
> at all. Gkrellm shows my cpu usage to peak for the time its really slow,
> and then drop to normal when everything "pops" back into speed. I guess
> the best way to describe it would be "bullet time" on your desktop.

It's probably just paging stuff back in after having paged it out
overnight to run something like the nightly cron jobs.

Kris

--PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFCFSpfWry0BWjoQKURAgr1AJ9/ZBzzNeaPnWCNX2RvCNZpv0/L8wCdH9z5
TrHCNzWi8U4oyWOWSC2ulgA=
=qB6f
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050217233559.GA19140>