From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264124AbUECWj1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 18:39:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264130AbUECWj1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 18:39:27 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:16317 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264124AbUECWjY (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 18:39:24 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Pasi Savolainen Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc3-mm1 Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 22:39:20 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20040430014658.112a6181.akpm@osdl.org> <4094CCF9.6070109@yahoo.com.au> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a11a.mannikko1.ton.tut.fi User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Nick Piggin : > Pasi Savolainen wrote: >> * Andrew Morton : >> >>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.6-rc3/2.6.6-rc3-mm1/ >> >> >> I'm having severe interactivity problems with 2.6 tree on a dual Athlon system. >> I mostly get 'X screen freezes/mouse pointer immovable for a several >> seconds' and rather often audio skips. >> > > Make sure X is running at the normal priority (ie 0). > Does that improve things? It already is at nice 0. The slab shrinking fix Andrew provided reduced all the swapping to minimum. So far 2.6.6-rc3+shrink_slab-handle-GFP_NOFS-fix has been the most 'responsive' 2.6 (I've been following rather closely sice 2.5.75). I can still trigger staggering and short (1/2sec) pauses when there's memory pressure and I quit some swapped-out application. It's been this way for a long time. Thanks. -- Psi --