From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Thomas Davis <tadavis@lbl.gov>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm3
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:58:07 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <412827DF.1080408@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040821214824.4bf5e6fd.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Thomas Davis <tadavis@lbl.gov> wrote:
>>3) Interactivity performance when compiling a kernel (make rpm) sucks. I have a Dell Poweredge 400SC, with a Hyper threaded P4/1GB of ram, ATI Radeon 9600 based video. Load average jumps to the 4's, and stays there - while each cpu in the hyper thread shows about 50% idle time. Mouse pointer jumps all over the place, mouse clicks are lost, menus are slow to drop down, etc..
>
>
> Ingo found a ghastly performance problem with X, but that'll be present in
> 2.6.8.1 as well.
The other thing is I may have botched moving my scheduler on top of smtnice.
I hadn't tested that too well (I have an HT system, but it doesn't run X).
If you get time, could you try turning off CONFIG_SCHED_SMT - if that still
doesn't help, try turning off hyperthreading completely. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-22 5:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-20 10:19 2.6.8.1-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-08-20 11:25 ` [PATCH] 2.6.8.1-mm3, fix visws kernel build Andrey Panin
2004-08-20 11:46 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Russell King
2004-08-20 11:47 ` [PATCH] 2.6.8.1-mm3, fix qla1280 build on visws Andrey Panin
2004-08-20 15:44 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Jesse Barnes
2004-08-20 16:57 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Jesse Barnes
2004-08-20 17:08 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Jesse Barnes
2004-08-20 18:55 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-08-20 19:56 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Jesse Barnes
2004-08-20 20:02 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-20 23:31 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Anton Blanchard
2004-08-21 0:03 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-21 7:04 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-21 15:22 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-21 19:59 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Jesse Barnes
2004-08-21 20:24 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-21 20:35 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Jesse Barnes
2004-08-23 9:02 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 David Mosberger
2004-08-23 16:27 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 wli
2004-08-23 18:18 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Jesse Barnes
2004-08-24 7:24 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 David Mosberger
2004-08-20 18:04 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 lockmeter on 512p w/kernbench Jesse Barnes
2004-09-10 16:25 ` Greg Edwards
2004-08-20 18:46 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Jesse Barnes
2004-08-21 1:26 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-08-21 20:05 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Jesse Barnes
2004-08-22 1:27 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Jesse Barnes
2004-08-22 2:11 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Nick Piggin
2004-08-22 15:44 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Jesse Barnes
2004-08-20 17:38 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 (build failture w/ CONFIG_NUMA) mita akinobu
2004-08-20 17:55 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-20 18:12 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-08-21 18:54 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-08-21 17:37 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-22 13:02 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-21 18:51 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 R. J. Wysocki
2004-08-22 4:32 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Thomas Davis
2004-08-22 4:48 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Andrew Morton
2004-08-22 4:58 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-08-22 6:26 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Thomas Davis
2004-08-22 6:51 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Pete Zaitcev
2004-08-22 15:11 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-21 14:43 2.6.8.1-mm3 Mikael Pettersson
2004-08-21 16:02 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 James Bottomley
2004-08-21 17:15 2.6.8.1-mm3 Mikael Pettersson
2004-08-21 18:38 2.6.8.1-mm3 Mikael Pettersson
2004-08-21 19:14 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Patrick Mansfield
2004-08-21 19:24 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 James Bottomley
2004-08-21 21:47 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 Matthew Wilcox
2004-08-25 3:50 ` 2.6.8.1-mm3 James Bottomley
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