From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 17:32:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A33DF16A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:32:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2962A43D46 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:32:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i97HWBPv024006; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:32:12 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <41657D63.1050605@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 11:31:15 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040831 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White References: <4164BFA4.80105@unisa.edu.au> <20041007101315.W89482@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20041007101315.W89482@carver.gumbysoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org cc: Benjamin Close cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Noticable Delays Since Beta 3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:32:18 -0000 Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Benjamin Close wrote: > > >> I've been using each Beta Release as they come out and ever since >>Beta 3 I've noticed delays where there never used to be any. >>I believe this may be somehow related to ULE->BSD scheduler change. A >>classic situation of where they now exist is when I switch virtual >>desktops back to another xterm. It takes 4-5 seconds before I can type. >>The machine is virtually 100% idle. Before beta3 this was not a problem >>with almost an instant response. > > > Can you provide a reproduction case? I don't notice any sort of delay when > switching between text vtys, or changing keyboard focus in X. I've been > using 4BSD the entire time. > > Are you switching between X and text vty's? There's always been a delay > there, worse on my amd64 box than i386, but I don't do that regularly; > much easier to just pop another xterm :) > I actually get this often in WindowMaker when I'm switching to a desktop that contains mozilla. It takes about 5-10 seconds for mozilla to redraw itself and start accepting input. I haven't had time to figure out the source, I just assumed for now that it was because the mozilla process started swapping to disk, and swapping it back in was thrashing things. Scott