Re: [PATCH] O3int interactivity for 2.5.74-mm2

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:19, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Monday 07 July 2003 12:51, Nick Sanders wrote:
>
> Hi Con, Hi Andrew,
>
> > > Thanks to Felipe who picked this up I was able to find the one bug
> > > causing me grief. The idle detection code was allowing the sleep_avg to
> > > get to ridiculously high levels. This is corrected in the following
> > > replacement O3int patch. Note this fixes the mozilla issue too. Kick
> > > arse!!
> >
> > Just booted with patch-O3int-0307071315 on top of 2.5.74-mm2 and the
> > mouse stuttering under high CPU load has gone and no audio skipping.
> > Truly brilliant work
> > Thank you
> > Nick
>
> Hmm, this becomes better and better, but it's still not perfect [tm].

Thanks for feedback. I will keep working on it while I still have ideas and 
direction based on the feedback. 

> - An Xterm needs ~30 seconds to open up while "make -j16 bzImage modules"
> - An Xterm needs ~15 seconds to open up while "make -j8 bzImage modules"
> - XMMS does _not_ skip mp3's while above.
> - Kmail is almost unusable while above (stops for about 5 secs every 15-20
>   secs). KMail is also very slow while the machine is doing nothing.
> - X runs with nice 0, prio 15 (nice -11 is prio 4, does not make
> difference)

Noted; and considered the next major hurdle (was also the most notable 
complaint from Mike).

Con