On 11/20/2010 10:55 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:25 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Nikos
Chantziaras did opine thusly:
About two months ago I did reboot into a gentoo kernel and things did
feel a little different but not in a way I could put my fingers on. I
put it down to running a huge compile in screen. I do feel the
incremental improvements in KDE since about 4.3, mostly because new
versions come out rapidly.
What do you perceive with BFS vs mainline/gentoo/whatever?
Less stalls in animations. A classic example is mplayer stalling when I
move the mouse over the clock to the right of the system tray in KDE.
KDE will fade-in a pop-up that contains details about the current date.
For the duration of the fade-in, mplayer will stop playing frames.
This is a "stall." It seems that the compositor of KDE gets way more
CPU than it should resulting in mplayer starving for CPU. With BFS,
this does not happen.
I'm running 2.6.36-ck-r2 and mplayer is smooth as a baby's backside - KDE
animations have no effect on that.
2.6.36-ck-r2 has BFS as scheduler. I thought your were *not* using BFS :-P
