On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, David Newall wrote:

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> > The problem is that under heavy load the auto-repeat problem is real; 
> > I've seen it as well, and it means that I've started to try to avoid 
> > "make -j4" since that's a great way to trigger it.
> I'm sure it does suck under heavy load, although I suppose you could
> increase the start time.  But I wonder if that is the problem this
> time?  Modern machines are so damned fast they actually take real effort
> to load.  Actually, "make -j4" doesn't sound particularly heavy. 
> There's huge disk i/o in a make.  Plenty of scheduling opportunities. 
> Obviously I only know what everybody else here knows; but with so many
> recent posts suggesting a scheduling fault has been introduced, I'm
> expecting it to be that.

The problem became much more apparent during early -rc phase of 2.6.25 for 
those people that have CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED turned on. This clearly shows 
that X are somehow unhappy with how kernel schedules them, but I don't 
have idea how autorepeat is implemented inside X and what could be the 
problem right now.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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