Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-mm1-V0

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 04:31:23 EST



* K.R. Foley <kr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've repeated the above on the dual 933 Xeon:
>
> Still problems with interactive behavior. Running KDE, with top
> running in xterm, scrolling through the menus I get some pauses. When
> the pauses occur I see kdeinit hit the top of the list and sometimes
> consuming 90% or more of a CPU and idle usage drops to 30-40%. I do
> see some latency traces (not really high ones) in the log that were
> generated by kdeinit but I think they were generated prior to when
> these pauses occurred, most likely when logging in.

is this 90% or more CPU time system (kernel) overhead or userspace
overhead?

Ingo
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