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From: "Murray J. Root" <murrayr@brain.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test6 scheduling(?) oddness
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 01:10:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031001051008.GD1416@Master> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030930215512.1df59be3.akpm@osdl.org>

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:55:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "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?

Nope - even tried it with KDE apps.
Write it off to OpenOffice, not test6.

That doesn't explain the major time increase of the render, though.
200% for 2.5.65 vs 2.6.0-test6 or 150% for 2.6.0-test5 vs 2.6.0-test6 is a 
bit extreme.

-- 
Murray J. Root


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-01  5:10 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
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 [this message]
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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