On Sunday 30 December 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Kip Macy wrote: > > On Nov 19, 2007 9:53 AM, Anish Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Anish Mistry wrote: > >>> On Monday 05 November 2007, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > >>>> Marc Fonvieille wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 05:53:47PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > >>>>>> Anish Mistry wrote: > >>>>>>> On Thursday 18 October 2007, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > >>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:28:30PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote: > >>>>>>>>> I just updated to RELENG_7 from 6.2 and I'm running into > >>>>>>>>> some really annoying issues with jerky mouse movement and > >>>>>>>>> skipping sound. This seems to be similar to: > >>>>>>>>> Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow > >>>>>>>>> This happens both with 4BSD and ULE. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> I seems to happen when I'm compiling ports and a new > >>>>>>>>> cc/bzip2/sh process fires off (I'm just watching top), > >>>>>>>>> I'll get the skip/freezeup. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> [...] > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Using ULE and UP kernel (i.e. without SMP etc.) helped a > >>>>>>>> bit the things but it's still very annoying to use firefox > >>>>>>>> during ports build. I see this lag/freeze on all boxes I > >>>>>>>> use with 7.0, but it's true that with a fast machine > >>>>>>>> people can ignore the problem, it's less obvious than with > >>>>>>>> a 1GHz box for example. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Yeah, I'm still seeing this behavior. Does anyone have > >>>>>>> suggestions on debugging? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Thanks, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I did post the solution in this thread. > >>>>> > >>>>> It has nothing to do with the mouse. > >>>> > >>>> Does the problem persist for you? It's gone for me, even with > >>>> moused. > >>> > >>> Yes, the problem seems to have been fixed. I'm back to > >>> kern.hz=1000 and removed FULL_PREEMPTION. No skipping. > >> > >> It looks like I spoke too soon. I've just tried to compile miro > >> and as it was compiling the boost-python dependency I noticed > >> the problem again. Switching kern.hz="100" seems to fix the > >> problem. Can any of the developers in this area reproduce the > >> issue? It's pretty easy to reproduce on my 1.33Ghz Athlon. > > > > There is an ithread priority inversion bug that might be causing > > this. The fix for that should be going in shortly. > > > > -Kip > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > Anish, > > Can you confirm that this fix helped for you? i.e. do you still > see the problem? FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 #14: Sun Dec 30 21:50:59 EST 2007 I'm still seeing this problem, but it isn't nearly as bad. I still get some jerky mouse movement, but music doesn't skip now when I'm compiling.
-- Anish Mistry
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