Re: 2.5.70-mm6

[Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>]

Diego Calleja García <diegocg@teleline.es> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 19:45:58 +0200 (CEST)
> Maciej Soltysiak <solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv> wrote:
> 
> > The interactivity seems to have dropped. Again, with common desktop
> > applications: xmms playing with ALSA, when choosing navigating through
> > evolution options or browsing with opera, music skipps.
> > X is running with nice -10, but with mm5 it ran smoothly.
> 
> Under "heavy" disk usage (when sylpheed finish merging the lkml
> messages in the 92M lkml mail folder) X pointer stops moving 
> (say, 1/8 or 1/6 seconds, very noticeable, pointer stops, windows stop
> redrawing, etc).

I've noticed similar.  Just a new vague jerkiness.

> System is a dual p3 800; fs is ext3. This odd behaviour
> seems to happen since the 2.5.69-mm9 ext3 locking changes.
> (well i started testing 2.5.70-mm3 because i'm timid,
> but never happened before in mm or mainline)

Might be.  There were some CPU scheduler changes a week before 2.5.69-mm9. 
If it's in ext3 then profiling will probably shake it out.  I haven't done
a lot of profiling yet.