On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:35 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Darn, have news: latency thing isn't dead. Two busy loops, one at nice > 0 pinned to CPU0, and one at nice 19 pinned to CPU1 produced the > latencies below for nice -5 Xorg. Didn't kill the box though. > > se.wait_max : 10.068169 > se.wait_max : 7.465334 > se.wait_max : 135.501816 > se.wait_max : 0.884483 > se.wait_max : 144.218955 > se.wait_max : 128.578376 > se.wait_max : 93.975768 > se.wait_max : 4.965965 > se.wait_max : 113.655533 > se.wait_max : 4.301075 > > sched_debug (attached) is.. strange.
Disabling CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED fixed both. Latencies of up to 336ms hit me during the recompile (make -j3), with nothing else running. Since reboot, latencies are, so far, very very nice. I'm leaving it disabled for now. -Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/