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From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: 2.4.18-pre7 slow ... apm problem
Date: 27 Jan 2002 19:15:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1012176940.2576.102.camel@thanatos> (raw)

> 1) keyboard rate is a bit slow on 2.4.18-pre7 compared to
>    2.4.18-pre6.
> 2) On vmware 3.0, ping localhost is very slow. 2.4.18-pre6
>    has not such problem.
>
> After disabling CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE, the system works fast again.
> With pre6 or earlier versions, system works fine though even with
> CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE enabled.

Idle handling in the apm driver was modified in 2.4.18-pre7 .
Back to the drawing board ...

Note that you can disable apm idle handling by setting the
apm idle_threshold parameter to 100.  You don't need to
recompile the kernel.




             reply	other threads:[~2002-01-28  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-28  0:15 Thomas Hood [this message]
2002-01-28  0:32 ` 2.4.18-pre7 slow ... apm problem Alan Cox
2002-01-28  2:37   ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 10:14     ` Alan Cox
2002-01-28 11:25       ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 13:03         ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-28 13:18         ` Alan Cox
2002-01-28 16:19           ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28  3:22   ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 20:11   ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-28 20:28     ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 22:20       ` Alan Cox
2002-01-29 12:36       ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-30  1:12         ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-30  9:22           ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-28 21:14     ` Thomas Hood
2002-01-28 21:17     ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-28 23:09     ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-29 13:01       ` Jeff Chua
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-29 18:53 Petr Vandrovec
2002-01-29 22:47 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-30  0:44 ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-30  5:50   ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-01-30  9:27     ` Jeff Chua
2002-02-01 13:20     ` Jeff Chua
2002-01-28 23:22 Petr Vandrovec
2002-01-27 10:08 Jeff Chua

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