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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
	Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>,
	Peter Lundkvist <p.lundkvist@telia.com>,
	akpm@digeo.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bad interactive behaviour in 2.5.65-66 (sched.c)
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:14:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030330141404.GG917@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1048992365.13757.23.camel@localhost>

On Sat, Mar 29 2003, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 21:33, Con Kolivas wrote:
> 
> > Are you sure this should be called a bug? Basically X is an interactive 
> > process. If it now is "interactive for a priority -10 process" then it should 
> > be hogging the cpu time no? The priority -10 was a workaround for lack of 
> > interactivity estimation on the old scheduler.
> 
> Well, I do not necessarily think that renicing X is the problem.  Just
> an idea.

I see the exact same behaviour here (systems appears fine, cpu intensive
app running, attempting to start anything _new_ stalls for ages), and I
definitely don't play X renice tricks.

It basically made 2.5 unusable here, waiting minutes for an ls to even
start displaying _anything_ is totally unacceptable.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-30 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-29 21:32 Bad interactive behaviour in 2.5.65-66 (sched.c) Peter Lundkvist
2003-03-29 23:23 ` Robert Love
2003-03-30  1:21   ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-30  2:05     ` Robert Love
2003-03-30  2:33       ` Con Kolivas
2003-03-30  2:46         ` Robert Love
2003-03-30  3:58           ` Tom Sightler
2003-03-30  5:23             ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-30 19:24               ` Tom Sightler
2003-04-01  1:41               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2003-03-30 14:14           ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2003-03-30 21:06             ` Con Kolivas
2003-03-31  2:23               ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-31  6:35                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-31  7:05                   ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-31  8:46                     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-31  8:54                     ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-20  3:55                       ` Mike Galbraith
2003-04-18 13:58                   ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-30 10:16       ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-30 11:18   ` Mika Liljeberg

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