Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On Saturday 27 December 2008 21:13:49 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> I have this in my make.conf:
>>>
>>> PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"
>>>
>>> Helped a bit. But still the GUI (KDE 3.5.10) gets pretty laggy.
>>> Just a
>>> few hours ago I updated to gcc-4.3.2-r1. Even with nice 19 and ionice
>>> 3, lag is there.
>>>
>>> I hope someone finds the magic button in the kernel config to fix
>>> that :P
>>
>> There isn't one - at least not one that really works.
>>
>> Linux mostly ignores NICE and has done so since day one. The reason
>> according to Linux himself on some LKML post quite a while back is
>> that Linux has a semi-decent task scheduler and nice is a 100% manual
>> task scheduler.
>
> It got worse with kernel 2.6.28, btw, especially mouse cursor
> movement. It gets stuck and skips very noticeably. Fortunately, it's
> not a point yet where I would describe it as unusable, but if the
> trend continues, desktop will be totally unusable by 2.6.31/32 when
> doing something that produces load.
>
>
>
So it is not just me that has screwy mouse movement. I been using a old
kernel for a while now and even thought it was just a wrong setting on
my part.
Has anyone been telling the kernel folks about this problem so they can
fix it or roll something back?
Dale
:-) :-)
