Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4

Gene Heskett
2007-04-22T01:22:41Z

On Saturday 21 April 2007, S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
>21 Nis 2007 Cts tarihinde, Gene Heskett şunları yazmıştı:
>> This one is another keeper IMO, or as we are fond of saying around here,
>> its good enough for the girls I go with. If this isn't the best one so
>> far, its very very close and I'm getting pickier. kmail is the only thing
>> that's lagging, and that's just kmail, which I believe is single threaded.
>
>Add +1 for kmail lags (by the way mines are freezes instead of lags, cause i
>cannot use konsole etc. while these happens)
>
>Cheers

yes, you are correct, the composer in particular, or the response to the + key
for next message, will freeze for the second or maybe 2, that kmail is
sorting and storing incoming mail. This is a major problem for users of
dialup on an auto basis because its frozen for much of the time it takes the
much slower modem communications to complete, compared to a dsl circuit where
one can have fetchmail doing the sucking, and handing it off to procmail for
treatment by spamassassin and its ilk before finally storing the incoming
mail in /var/spool/mail/gene. kmail sees none of that background activity at
all. They actually run asynchronously here.

kmail then picks that up and sorts it to the correct kmail folder and this
does cause the lag/freeze while its doing that.

This latter lag/freeze is all I see, but for those that are using kmail to
directly access their ISP's mailserver(s), this lag/freeze isn't a 1 second
freeze, but a 10-30 second freeze, and that is truly a cast iron bitch
version of a PITA.

--
Cheers, Gene
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