linux-kernel - Re: RSDL v0.31

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Message-id: <200703170805.59619.gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:05:59 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>,
	ck@....kolivas.org, Serge Belyshev <belyshev@...ni.sinp.msu.ru>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>,
	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: RSDL v0.31

On Saturday 17 March 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>Rocks and clubs at work (down boy <whack>, down i say!;).
>
>This is .30 with some targeted unfairness. I seem to be making progress

Try -0.31, its better yet.

>toward beating it to a bloody but cooperative pulp.  It might be
>possible to have my cake and eat it too.  Likely too ugly to live
>though.
>
>top - 11:35:50 up 57 min, 12 users,  load average: 5.20, 4.30, 2.57
>
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  P COMMAND
> 6599 root      26   0  174m  30m 8028 R   51  3.1   7:08.70 0 Xorg
> 7991 root      29   0 18196  14m 5188 R   47  1.4   0:55.70 0
> amarok_libvisua 7995 root      37   5  3720 2444  976 R   44  0.2  
> 0:27.53 1 lame 7993 root      37   5  3720 2448  976 R   40  0.2  
> 0:46.60 1 lame

What X driver are you using Mike?  Are you on a builtin video chipset 
using mobo shared memory?  I'm running the nvidia 9755 driver here with a 
jaton nvidia 6200-256 card here, and YES I KNOW that taints the kernel, 
but x is using on average, 1.3% of the cpu.  Its sitting at a -1 nice and 
it continues to give usable results here in the face of a make -j8 
running in another shell.

With figures (over 50% cpu to X)  like that, its no wonder you're 
squawking about it.

An old phrase comes to mind "Physician, Heal thyself".  Your X is broken 
and you are trying to blame everything but X.  Fix your hardware and 
drivers.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long.
		-- Howard Kandel
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