RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound

Anish Mistry mistry.7 at osu.edu
Wed Nov 7 06:49:36 PST 2007


On Monday 05 November 2007, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 05:53:47PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> >> Anish Mistry wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 18 October 2007, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:28:30PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote:
> >>>>> I just updated to RELENG_7 from 6.2 and I'm running into some
> >>>>> really annoying issues with jerky mouse movement and skipping
> >>>>> sound.  This seems to be similar to:
> >>>>> Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow
> >>>>> This happens both with 4BSD and ULE.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I seems to happen when I'm compiling ports and a new
> >>>>> cc/bzip2/sh process fires off (I'm just watching top), I'll
> >>>>> get the skip/freezeup.
> >>>>
> >>>> [...]
> >>>>
> >>>> Using ULE and UP kernel (i.e. without SMP etc.) helped a bit
> >>>> the things but it's still very annoying to use firefox during
> >>>> ports build.  I see this lag/freeze on all boxes I use with
> >>>> 7.0, but it's true that with a fast machine people can ignore
> >>>> the problem, it's less obvious than with a 1GHz box for
> >>>> example.
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, I'm still seeing this behavior.  Does anyone have
> >>> suggestions on debugging?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>
> >> I did post the solution in this thread.
> >
> > It has nothing to do with the mouse.
>
> Does the problem persist for you? It's gone for me, even with
> moused.
Yes, the problem seems to have been fixed.  I'm back to kern.hz=1000 
and removed FULL_PREEMPTION.  No skipping.

-- 
Anish Mistry
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