Re: TASK_NONINTERACTIVE (was: Machine Freezes while Running Crossover Office)

[Pekka J Enberg]

Hi Ingo, 

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 09:35 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Pekka, could you check whether the patch below solves your Wine problem 
> > (without hurting interactivity otherwise)?

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 13:26 +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> I have been running a patched 2.6.12-rc5 for over an hour now with no 
> interactivity problems whatsoever (although on a different laptop). I am 
> using Eclipse, Tomcat, XMMS, Firefox, and Evolution. From my POV, this is 
> 2.6.12 and -stable material. Thanks! 

Unfortunately I have to take that comment back. Under heavy CPU load [*], 
the interactivity is worse than with 2.6.11.10. XMMS skips and the X mouse 
cursor is all jerky. A better short-term fix would be to reduce pipe
buffer size to 4 KB. 

[*] Running Eclipse and Tomcat while exercising Selenium JavaScript tests
  in Firefox. In other words, a JavaScript bot going through a Java web
  application. 

                   Pekka 

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