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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 07:05:14 +0200 (SAST)
From:      "Geoff Rehmet" <geoffr@is.co.za>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches
Message-ID:  <20000329050514.251.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <200003290308.TAA56364@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Mar 28, 2000 07:08:57 pm"

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Matthew Dillon writes :
> :I'm running a UP machine with Matt's latest changes. I was just
> :compiling a new kernel and noticed the my PS/2 mouse under X was very
> :sluggish. I never noticed this sort of behavior before the changes,
> :even while doing ``make -j8 buildworld''.
> :
> :The compile was running on a UW SCSI disk on an Adaptec aic7880 Ultra
> :SCSI adapter on my motherboard, in case it matters.
> :
> :Looks like something has been verschlimmbessert (a wonderful German
> :word which means "made worse through improvement" :)
> :
> :--------
> :Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de garyj@fkr.cpqcorp.net gj@freebsd.org
> 
>     Ok, I'll take a look at it... the most likely cause is that I somehow
>     broke need_resched.  Not impossible, I'll check it out.
I'm seeing the same symptoms while doing a make - my console performance
is very jumpy and sluggish.

Geoff.

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