Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:39:10 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Geoff Rehmet <geoffr@is.co.za> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0003290038260.27361-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000329050514.251.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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Yeah, I was wrong before.. I just had to really hit the system hard before I noticed this behavior... it get's pretty bad... the mouse get's jumpy, and the keyboard input is really slow... ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Geoff Rehmet wrote: > 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. > > -- > Geoff Rehmet, > The Internet Solution > geoffr@is.co.za; geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za; csgr@freebsd.org > tel: +27-83-292-5800 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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