[gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 11/20/2010 10:55 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 21:25 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Nikos
> Chantziaras did opine thusly:
>
>>> About two months ago I did reboot into a gentoo kernel and things did
>>> feel a little different but not in a way I could put my fingers on. I
>>> put it down to running a huge compile in screen. I do feel the
>>> incremental improvements in KDE since about 4.3, mostly because new
>>> versions come out rapidly.
>>>
>>> What do you perceive with BFS vs mainline/gentoo/whatever?
>>
>> Less stalls in animations.  A classic example is mplayer stalling when I
>> move the mouse over the clock to the right of the system tray in KDE.
>> KDE will fade-in a pop-up that contains details about the current date.
>>    For the duration of the fade-in, mplayer will stop playing frames.
>> This is a "stall."  It seems that the compositor of KDE gets way more
>> CPU than it should resulting in mplayer starving for CPU.  With BFS,
>> this does not happen.
>
> I'm running 2.6.36-ck-r2 and mplayer is smooth as a baby's backside - KDE
> animations have no effect on that.

2.6.36-ck-r2 has BFS as scheduler.  I thought your were *not* using BFS :-P