From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 13:57:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1649916A4B3 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:57:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.chesapeake.net (chesapeake.net [208.142.252.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A8343FE9 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jroberson@chesapeake.net) Received: from localhost (jroberson@localhost) by mail.chesapeake.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h99KvhU81000; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:57:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jroberson@chesapeake.net) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:57:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Roberson To: Sheldon Hearn In-Reply-To: <20031009202305.GJ42736@starjuice.net> Message-ID: <20031009165706.B99666-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Scott Sipe Subject: Re: Sched_Ule X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 20:57:50 -0000 On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On (2003/10/09 00:28), Scott Sipe wrote: > > > Anything that seems disk intensive: bzip2 (unbzip2ing one big file makes > > this happen), making world, building ports, etc makes my X environment > > practically unusable. Mouse stutters, reaction times is very slow, feels > > 10x more sluggish than normal. (I'm running KDE if anyone is curious). > > A number of us are seeing this problem, and not all of us are entry > level end-users. I'm using a single PIII with 1GB of RAM and maxusers > 0. No Hyper-threading, nothing interesting in the kernel (apart from > I686_CPU only, KTRACE and _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING). > > The problem (as I recall) is that Jeff hasn't received reports from > people who can dig into the problem and have the time to do so. > > For example, I'm pretty sure I could at least point a finger at the > problem if I had time. But I'm under heavy pressure, and so the only > solution that's feasible for me is to just switch to SCHED_4BSD and keep > moving. > > What surprises me is that Jeff can't reproduce it. > > For me, the sluggish mouse problem manifests under these conditions: > > 1) Use a USB mouse, not a PS2 mouse. Is this _only_ with usb? > 2) SCHED_ULE in the kernel. > 3) make buildworld (no -j necessary, but -k exacerbates the problem). > 4) Fiddle around in X (no particular window manager required). > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >