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From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: scheduling problems in X with 2.6.0
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 02:30:41 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FFC2621.7060808@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040107102352.GA2954@piper.madduck.net>



martin f krafft wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Ever since I moved to 2.6.0, I have been experiencing something I'd
>like to call scheduling problems while working in X. I have tried
>using preemptive mode, and turning it off, but the symptoms are the
>same:
>
>whenever there is continuous disk access (e.g. tar, rsync, dd),
>X will not respond for a couple of seconds every couple of seconds.
>With that I mean that the mouse will freeze as well as all screen
>output, and then resume after a couple of seconds.
>
>I wonder if I am the only one with that problem. The machine in
>question is a dual AMD 2400+ with 2Gb of RAM and a Maxtor DiamondMax
>drive spinning at 7200 RPM. The drive is configured as follows
>(hdparm):
>

Can you post 20 or so lines of 'vmstat 1' captured while the problem is
happening? See if you can see which lines correspond to X freezing (ie.
watch the xterm), but that might be impossible if everything freezes.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-07 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-07 10:23 scheduling problems in X with 2.6.0 martin f krafft
2004-01-07 15:30 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-01-07 17:46   ` martin f krafft
2004-01-08 15:34     ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-08 15:41       ` martin f krafft
2004-01-08 15:47         ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-08 15:42       ` martin f krafft

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