On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 07:30, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 23:20, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 23:13, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 23:38, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > [...] > > What do you mean ? There is no way the new radeonfb would be slower > > than the old one in 2.6. If you run in 8bpp, you won't get any better > > without acceleration and the 2.6 radeonfb isn't accelerated (neither > > the old one nor the new one). 2.4 was. I don't have time to look into > > the accel code for 2.6 for now. > > Now that you say that, I find that it might be some scheduling problem > and not the radeonfb: > > When I start find /home for the first time it scrolls slowly. When I do > it a second time it is still slow. But when I did it a third time it is > superb fast (only 45sec vs some minutes / approx the same in xterm)... > > When I do it now it seems to accelerate... it starts slow but becomes > much faster...
What nice level does the X server run at? A negative value may actually hurt with the 2.6 scheduler. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer