Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Rohit Sharma
marcin wrote: Hi I've been comparing lately performance OpenGL apps against different kernels 2.6.x and 2.4. Overall performance is comparable but a scheduler of kernel 2.6 is very annoying (to say at least). I have not tried it myself, but there is an option in kernel config which

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:43, Rohit Sharma wrote: marcin wrote: Hi I've been comparing lately performance OpenGL apps against different kernels 2.6.x and 2.4. Overall performance is comparable but a scheduler of kernel 2.6 is very annoying (to say at least). I have not tried it myself,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:43, Rohit Sharma wrote: I have not tried it myself, but there is an option in kernel config which facilitates the role of Low latency desktop in the 2.6 kernels. A parameter can be set to 1000 [default] and can be

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 May 2006, marcin wrote: If by Low latency desktop you mean Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop) then i have tried this and it doesn't help. I set the kernel timer frequency to 100 Hz. There are other things that affect the latencies too. One is the timer frequency setting. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 07 May 2006 17:41, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:43, Rohit Sharma wrote: I have not tried it myself, but there is an option in kernel config which facilitates the role of Low latency desktop in the 2.6 kernels. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 07 May 2006 17:41, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:43, Rohit Sharma wrote: I have not tried it myself, but there is an option in kernel config which facilitates the role of Low latency desktop in the 2.6 kernels. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread marcin
On 5/7/06, Tero Grundström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, marcin wrote: If by Low latency desktop you mean Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop) then i have tried this and it doesn't help. I set the kernel timer frequency to 100 Hz. There are other things that affect the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
marcin wrote: Can anyone tell me how to increase priority for OpenGL? Thanks, Marcin I am using gentoo-sources with the Anticipatory I/O sched and did not notice a slow down when I ran glxgears and nbench. I get about 980 fps on my laptop with or without nbench running. What kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
marcin wrote: Hi I've been comparing lately performance OpenGL apps against different kernels 2.6.x and 2.4. Overall performance is comparable but a scheduler of kernel 2.6 is very annoying (to say at least). Simple test: Kernel 2.6 glxgears gives 1320 fps but if I simultaneously

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 17:41, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: are you sure? AFAIR 250 is default since som time. No, 1000 has always been the default for 2.6. kernels. not anymore! unpacked a 2.6.16

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread marcin
On 5/7/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: marcin wrote: Can anyone tell me how to increase priority for OpenGL? Thanks, Marcin I am using gentoo-sources with the Anticipatory I/O sched and did not notice a slow down when I ran glxgears and nbench. I get about 980 fps on my laptop with or

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread marcin
On 5/7/06, Eugene Rosenzweig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: marcin wrote: Hi I've been comparing lately performance OpenGL apps against different kernels 2.6.x and 2.4. Overall performance is comparable but a scheduler of kernel 2.6 is very annoying (to say at least). Simple test: Kernel 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread marcin
On 5/7/06, marcin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: marcin wrote: Can anyone tell me how to increase priority for OpenGL? Thanks, Marcin I am using gentoo-sources with the Anticipatory I/O sched and did not notice a slow down when I ran glxgears and

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
marcin wrote: On 5/7/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: marcin wrote: Can anyone tell me how to increase priority for OpenGL? Thanks, Marcin I am using gentoo-sources with the Anticipatory I/O sched and did not notice a slow down when I ran glxgears and nbench. I get about 980 fps on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, AS stinks, when mldonkey is running. The whole system crawls, while waiting for some moment, where it can access the harddisk, that is abused by mldonkey. CFQ is much better in that szenario. BTW, nbench is a CPU/memory benchmark, right? So why should the IO-scheduler has an influence on

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 19:20, Tero Grundström wrote: Anyways, 1000Hz is still the preferred setting for desktop (according to menuconfig and CK). That is of course only if you don't have problems. yeah, but 250 is not worse in 'responsiveness'

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
marcin wrote: I have tried some other tests If I set export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1 then everything is OK! glxgears has 75 (as my vertrefresh) even if cpu burns Without VBLANK I have noticed that glxgears takes a lot of sys time. $ watch -n 0,1 cat /proc/stat | grep cpu0 | cut -d' ' -f4 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
W.Kenworthy wrote: I have just set up a Sony Vaio with an i915 that runs ~850-900fps - acceptable, but how does this compare with your i915? Sorry if you already mentioned this, but I have come on this thread late. Billk My laptop is a Pentium M 1.73GHz with 1GB memory. With gentoo-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 07 May 2006 23:21, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 19:20, Tero Grundström wrote: Anyways, 1000Hz is still the preferred setting for desktop (according to menuconfig and CK). That is of course only if you don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread W.Kenworthy
P-M 1.2Ghz, CFQ 250Mhz. I have found 1000hz doesn't help much with response (on my last system), but did slow most benchmarks slightly - 250 was a good compromise. I'll give the ant scheduler a try on the next reboot as I originally went CFQ as ant seemed to cause lockout on high disk use - but

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 23:21, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I went 250Hz a long time ago, and it did not hurt me in any way. But I am also only using vanilla kernels without patches ;) Whether its