Re: 2.6.8.1-ck4

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

Con Kolivas writes:

> 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?

blah... I mean `top -b -n 1`

Con