From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751058AbXCJSVb (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:21:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751059AbXCJSVb (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:21:31 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:1028 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750987AbXCJSVa (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:21:30 -0500 Message-ID: <45F2F727.7010406@rtr.ca> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:21:27 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas Cc: Serge Belyshev , William Lee Irwin III , Matt Mackall , linux-kernel , akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 RSDL results References: <20070309053931.GA10459@waste.org> <87irdasnz4.fsf@depni.sinp.msu.ru> <45F1A263.5020407@rtr.ca> <200703100723.51858.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200703100723.51858.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Con Kolivas wrote: > On Saturday 10 March 2007 05:07, Mark Lord wrote: >> Mmm.. when it's good, it's *really* good. >> My desktop feels snappier and all of that. >.. >> But when it's bad, it stinks. >> Like when a "make -j2" kernel rebuild is happening in a background window > > And that's bad. When you say "it stinks" is it more than 3 times slower? It > should be precisely 3 times slower under that load (although low cpu using > things like audio wont be affected by running 3 times slower). If it feels > like much more than that much slower, there is a bug there somewhere. Scrolling windows is incredibly jerkey, and very very sluggish when images are involved (eg. a large web page in firefox). > As another reader suggested, how does it run with the compile 'niced'? How does > it perform with make (without a -j number). Yes, it behaves itself when the "make -j2" is nice'd. >> This is on a Pentium-M 760 single-core, w/2GB SDRAM (notebook). > > What HZ are you running? Are you running a Beryl desktop? HZ==1000, NO_HZ, Kubunutu Dapper Drake distro, ATI X300 open-source X.org driver. Cheers