On Sunday 11 March 2007 05:21, Mark Lord wrote: > 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.
Can you try the new version of RSDL. Assuming it doesn't oops on you it has some accounting bugfixes which may have been biting you. Thanks -- -ck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
