On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 04:33:49AM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > > >Since I upgraded from 5.3-stable to 5.4-prerelease, I've noticed that my > >computer is hanging badly under load. I've a P4 2.53 GHz without > >hyperthreading (no SMP). I use the same kernel configurations than > >before. Now when I compile a port for example, the mouse pointer hangs > >in Fluxbox and Mozilla takes forever (meaning ~5 sec) to refresh the > >screen. Even vi hangs. I do not see any warning/error message. Is it a > >known problem with 5.4? > > Not quite as dramatic here, but when, say, the firefox source gets > untarred, my machine becomes quite unresponsive, including audio > decoding (xmms) stuttering and the mouse cursor jumping around. > Haven't seen the likes since the 486 days. This is 5.4-PRERELEASE > on a P4 3GHz. Perhaps some badly balanced scheduler stuff?
You both forgot to mention which scheduler ;-) Kris
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