From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 27 23:55:21 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0456106564A for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:55:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from george+freebsd@m5p.com) Received: from mailhost.m5p.com (ip-2-2-0-2.r20.asbnva02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [IPv6:2001:418:0:5000::16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB348FC08 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:55:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonderland.m5p.com (wonderland.m5p.com [IPv6:2001:418:3fd::19]) by mailhost.m5p.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1RNtEJ5075868; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:55:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from george+freebsd@m5p.com) Message-ID: <4F4C17E2.2040101@m5p.com> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:55:14 -0500 From: George Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120122 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Smedts References: <4F2F7B7F.40508@FreeBSD.org> <4F366E8F.9060207@FreeBSD.org> <4F367965.6000602@FreeBSD.org> <4F396B24.5090602@FreeBSD.org> <4F3978BC.6090608@FreeBSD.org> <4F3990EA.1080002@FreeBSD.org> <4F3C0BB9.6050101@FreeBSD.org> <4F3E807A.60103@FreeBSD.org> <4F3E8858.4000001@FreeBSD.org> <4F4ACF2C.50300@m5p.com> <4F4B67AB.40907@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (mailhost.m5p.com [IPv6:2001:418:3fd::f7]); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:55:20 -0500 (EST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.72 on IPv6:2001:418:3fd::f7 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFT][patch] Scheduling for HTT and not only X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:55:21 -0000 On 02/27/12 06:28, Olivier Smedts wrote: > 2012/2/27 George Mitchell: >> On 02/27/12 05:35, Olivier Smedts wrote: >>> >>> 2012/2/27 George Mitchell: >>>> >>>> I finally got around to trying this on a 9.0-STABLE GENERIC kernel, in >>>> the forlorn hope that it would fix SCHED_ULE's poor performance for >>>> interactive processes with a full load on interactive processes. It >>>> doesn't help. -- George Mitchell >>> >>> >>> Are you using sysmouse (moused) for the xorg pointer ? >>> >> >> Yes. -- George Mitchell > > Can you try with hald, or directly with the mouse device, without > using moused ? Others reported they had better interactivity without > sysmouse/moused. Really better (no mouse lag or freeze when under high > load). > This seems to be harder than you would expect with a USB mouse -- moused starts up even with 'moused_enable="NO"' in my /etc/rc.conf. And in any case, I'm not talking about poor mouse response: I'm talking about over a minute and a half for thunderbird to start up with the mouse standing still, and "make buildkernel" not completing even after eight hours. -- George Mitchell