Poor interactive response from the FC2 kernel on SMP hardware?

[Benjamin Arai]

I had some of the same issues but reduced a lot of them by setting the
default stack size back to 8k.  Fedora set it to 4k mainly to help javas
performance and that was about it.  Also, the inconsistencies you are
experiencing with applications may be for the same reason.  I am using a
dual and it seemed to work fine after re-compiling a vanilla kernel.

Another possibility is that Fedora uses there own asynchronous I/O
patch, which may conflict with the new 2.6 kernels scheduler. 

My machine that worked:
    - 2x Athlon MP
    - 2GB Registered RAM
    - NVIDIA ...
    - Blah blah blah
    - ...

These are all guesses...

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 21:48, Dan Berger wrote:

> Folks - I've been running FC1 with a home-build (stock) 2.6.X kernel
> for several months without issue.  
> 
> I upgraded to FC2 the other night and was immediately struck by the
> poor interactive performance of the system.  Audio (Ogg) played via
> rythmbox skips and stutters during I/O, the GUI pauses for "long"
> periods (where long is > 0), etc.
> 
> I just built a stock 2.6.6 kernel using the i686 smp config file
> shipped with FC2, and performance is much improved.  (I'm typing this,
> listening to music, and doing a make clean on the kernel tree with no
> stuttering.)
> 
> Have others seen this issue?  Is it known?  A search of this list
> didn't turn up anything that clearly matched, nor did a search of RH
> Bugzilla.
> 
> Cheers.
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