Re: Scheduler starvation (2.5.x, 2.6.0-test1)

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:39:17PM +0200, Jose Luis Domingo Lopez wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 July 2003, at 20:41:42 +0200,
> Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> 
> > Could you please test 2.6.0-test1-mm2? It includes some scheduler fixes
> > from Con Kolivas that will help in reducing or eliminating your
> > starvation issues.
> > 
> I was having the same jumpy mouse behaviuor with 2.6.0-test1, and on an
> otherwise idle Pentium III at 600 MHz box, scrolling a very simple HTML
> page in Mozilla makes xmms skip audio.
> 
> Then I tried 2.6.0-test1-mm2, and several things happened: now scrolling
> an HTML page in Mozilla seems not to affect MP3 playback with XMMS, but
> this is the only possitive effect. Focusing windows raises them way
> slower than in 2.6.0-test1, scheduler starvation is constant (just try
> to do something like going to another virtual desktop), and then, after
> several minutes, only XMMS got CPU time, the rest of the applications
> (at least, those running over X-Window) get stalled.

Yes, I get the same thing with KDE 3.1.  Are you using KDE or Gnome?  And if
so, what version?