Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc6-V0.7.48-00

[Ingo Molnar]

* Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Monday 27 June 2005 04:17, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >* Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> In the FWIW category, I booted 50-23 about an hour & a half ago,
> >> same mode 3, no hardirq's, everything seems to be working fine
> >> except for kmails total lack of threading causeing composer hangs
> >> while a mail fetch/spamassassin run is in progress.  But thats not
> >> anything new to this patchset, its an equal opportunity annoyer.
> >
> >does the patch below make the kmail starvation go away?

> I put in the comment and its building now.  I rather doubt its going 
> to make a huge diff though as its probably the single most repeated 
> bitch on the kmail lists, and has been for a long, very long as in 
> years, time.  From hints dropped here and there, it might finally be 
> fixed with kde-3.5.  But we'll give this a shot nontheless.  I'll add 
> more after I reboot to test.

ah, ok - so kmail behaves similarly on vanilla kernels too? I thought 
this might be some -RT-specific degradation.

	Ingo
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