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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Murray J. Root" <murrayr@brain.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test6 scheduling(?) oddness
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:55:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030930215512.1df59be3.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031001032238.GB1416@Master>

"Murray J. Root" <murrayr@brain.org> wrote:
>
> The render finishes in the same 30 minutes, then oowriter starts.
>  oowriter takes about 3 seconds to load if no rendering is going on.

OpenOffice uses sched_yield() in strange ways which causes it to
get hopelessly starved on 2.6 kernels.  I think RH have a fixed version,
but I don't know if that has propagated into the upstream yet.

So...  Don't worry about OpenOffice too much.  Is the problem reproducible
with other applications?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-01  4:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-01  3:22 2.6.0-test6 scheduling(?) oddness Murray J. Root
2003-10-01  4:08 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-01  4:09   ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-01  4:35   ` Murray J. Root
2003-10-01  4:55 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-10-01  5:04   ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-01  5:18     ` Murray J. Root
2003-10-01  6:53       ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-01  7:19         ` Murray J. Root
2003-10-01  5:10   ` Murray J. Root
2003-10-01 21:47     ` bill davidsen
2003-10-01 22:30       ` Ed Sweetman
2003-10-06  2:29         ` bill davidsen
2003-10-06 17:02           ` Murray J. Root

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