From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jan 25 17:32:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB9C37B401; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:32:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.208.78.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C6043E4A; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:32:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0Q1WZXv019912; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:32:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0Q1WYNE019911; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:32:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:32:34 -0800 From: Steve Kargl To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Jeff Roberson , Robert Watson , Gary Jennejohn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New scheduler (#3) Message-ID: <20030126013234.GA19891@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20030125171217.D18109-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> <200301252320.h0PNKVoq090077@apollo.backplane.com> <200301252350.h0PNo6xO009489@apollo.backplane.com> <200301260114.h0Q1EXuu017546@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301260114.h0Q1EXuu017546@apollo.backplane.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:14:33PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > This could be contributing to why people's X servers are blowing up... > it's because your scheduler thinks the X server never sleeps so the > priority remains artifically high even if the X server is mostly idle. > This would explain why my recent effort to force Jeff's scheduler to overload without X running didn't work. Matt, are you generating patches or simply analyzing Jeff's code? I don't mind panicking my machine if you need a guinea pig. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message