[fwd] cvs commit: src/lib/libthr/thread thr_mutex.c thr_umtx.c thr_umtx.h src/sys/kern kern_umtx.c src/sys/sys umtx.h

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:29:32 +0400
Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova at fbsd.ru> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:49 +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:28:44 +0400
> > Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova at fbsd.ru> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 07:32 +0000, David Xu wrote:
> > > 
> > > This commit makes threaded application almost unusable on 8-CURRENT.
> > > 
> > > Applications eat 100% CPU all the time and works _very_ slowly.
> > > (top shows several threads for every constantly applications eating CPU)
> > > 
> > > Following applications are affected for me: firefox, evolution, eclipse
> > > (probably more).
> > > 
> > > Reverting user-land part of commit fixes problem, reverting kernel
> > > changes nothing regarding the problem.
> 
> ...
> 
> > Did you recompile these misbehaving applications?
> > 
> > I ask because I installed a fresh world yesterday, without recompiling
> > any ports, and I'm _not_ seeing any misbehavior with firefox.
> 
> Do you have SMP system ? 
> 

Yes.  I also run gkrellm, hacked to show both cores, and I never see
firefox using an unusual amount of CPU.  But as I wrote previously,
my firefox is old and probably doesn't use the features which David
added.

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Gary Jennejohn