Re: 2.6.24-git4+ regression

From: Lukas Hejtmanek
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 05:56:07 EST


On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:29:19AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> if you apply the current sched-fixes (rollup patch below), does it get
> any better?

No.

Another observation, running two instances of while true; do true; done (on
1 dual core cpu) does not break interactivity.

running make clean; make -j2 in kernel tree breaks interactivity terribly.
Looks like disk I/O activity is needed to break interactivity.

While compiling, I have more than 1GB of RAM free. One friend of mine suggests
that kernel is swapping out binaries which causes non-interactivity. The
swaparea is clean, though. He also reports that the behavior can be seen even
in 2.6.24-rc8.

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Lukáš Hejtmánek
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