On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On (2003/10/09 00:28), Scott Sipe wrote: > > > Anything that seems disk intensive: bzip2 (unbzip2ing one big file makes > > this happen), making world, building ports, etc makes my X environment > > practically unusable. Mouse stutters, reaction times is very slow, feels > > 10x more sluggish than normal. (I'm running KDE if anyone is curious). > > A number of us are seeing this problem, and not all of us are entry > level end-users. I'm using a single PIII with 1GB of RAM and maxusers > 0. No Hyper-threading, nothing interesting in the kernel (apart from > I686_CPU only, KTRACE and _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING). > > The problem (as I recall) is that Jeff hasn't received reports from > people who can dig into the problem and have the time to do so. > > For example, I'm pretty sure I could at least point a finger at the > problem if I had time. But I'm under heavy pressure, and so the only > solution that's feasible for me is to just switch to SCHED_4BSD and keep > moving. > > What surprises me is that Jeff can't reproduce it. > > For me, the sluggish mouse problem manifests under these conditions: > > 1) Use a USB mouse, not a PS2 mouse. Is this _only_ with usb? > 2) SCHED_ULE in the kernel. > 3) make buildworld (no -j necessary, but -k exacerbates the problem). > 4) Fiddle around in X (no particular window manager required). > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Thu Oct 09 2003 - 11:57:50 UTC
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