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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 01:18:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031001051827.GE1416@Master> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F7A604F.1060905@cyberone.com.au>

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:04:15PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> >
> >
> 
> OK. Aside from the OpenOffice issue, you still have povray taking 50%
> longer to complete, which is quite remarkable if its single threaded and
> nothing else is running. Maybe its not the scheduler change? Anyway,
> Con will want to know exactly which version of his scheduler you used in
> test5 to check for possibilities.
> 
 
 patch-test5-O20int 
 
Not sure what caused the increase from 2.6.0-test5 to 2.6.0-test6.
One noticeable thing - I get a noticeable speed increase if I turn off
rendering to the screen, so that it only goes to a file. I don't get
that speed improvement in 2.5.65 - only in 2.6.0-test5 and 2.6.0-test6
test5 goes from 20 mins to about 15 mins (the same speed as 2.5.65 with
or without screen rendering)
test6 goes from 30 mins to 24 mins - still worse than test5 by a lot.

-- 
Murray J. Root


  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-01  5:18 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 [this message]
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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