Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
> Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> | I don't know what or why, but I am experiancing a nightmare with
> | interactivity and heavy nfs use.   I am using Gentoo, and I have my
> | portage tree exported from a central server.   Trying to do an emerge
> | update world is taking forever.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Yup I think I have a regression here, as well. I remember an older
> version of ck exhibited this, but the last one for 2.6.7 did work well
> (I think even the one for 2.8.6-rc4 was ok), IIRC. In my case, when
> doing a (niced) compile in background, some windows react very slow, ie
> Mozilla Thunderbird takes ages to switch trough mails or cliking on an
> icon in kde to load up konsole takes about 10seconds or more (shoud come
> up <1sec normally).
> 
> Using 2.8.6.1-ck4
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Prakash

For both of you this only happens with NFS? Can you reproduce the 
problem in flight and send me the output of 'top -n -n 1' while it's 
happening? Also if you have time can you confirm this happens with just 
the staircase patch and none of the other patches?

Cheers,
Con