From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:55:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test1-mm1 In-Reply-To: <6uwueidhdd.fsf@zork.zork.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Sean Neakums Cc: Andrew Morton , Con Kolivas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Sean Neakums wrote: > [...] If I keep running 'ps aux' its output does start to become slow > again, snapping back to full speed after a few more runs. Kind of an > odd one. there was a similar bug in the gnome terminal code, it was a userspace X window-refresh/event-qeueing bug/race that was sensitive to scheduler timings. So it can go away and come back based on precise timings. Eg. it was more likely to happen with antialiasing turned on than off. Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org