ULE/yielding patch for testing.

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 02:58:23PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Benjamin Close wrote:
>>> 
>>> After more testing, the lag problem is caused by the use of firefox.
>>> Once I try to open a heavy webpage, both firefox and Xorg become slow,
>>> the rest is fine.  By the "rest" I mean: audacious playing mp3s, wget and
>>> ncftp downloading huge (100MB) files, compiling wine and aMule running.
>>>   
>> I find the lag occuring with the 4BSD scheduler as well. dailytech.com is 
>> a particularly good site at lagging the system (though a great website).
>> Perhaps this isn't scheduler related?
> 

I don't think its scheduler related, last Jeff's changes helped a bit
the things with ULE but I also noticed the lag with 4BSD.

> I assume you checked whether you are touching swap.
>

In my case, the swap is never used:

Mem: 272M Active, 354M Inact, 157M Wired, 28M Cache, 110M Buf, 178M Free
Swap: 2023M Total, 2023M Free

-- 
Marc