Bug 54289 - sluggish text mode mouse while running 32 client stress test
Summary: sluggish text mode mouse while running 32 client stress test
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.3
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-10-03 14:59 UTC by Matt Domsch
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2001-10-04 18:59:51 UTC
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Description Matt Domsch 2001-10-03 14:59:02 UTC 
Description of Problem:
With Linux 7.1 installed on a PowerEdge 7150 system and 32-client stress 
test, the text console mouse response is very slow.  The response to a 
command prompt is good.  Also the performance of the processors when 
running top is CPU0 99.8 % and CPU1 60 %.
Client connectivity is good; stress test from the 32 clients is running at 
just about 2 days. 

7.2 RC1 seems to have the same problem.

Config:

BIOS X18/frmwr x15
2x800Mhz/2M
32x128MB (4 GB)
slot3 Ql2200 Moon/Haley (4 Hard Drive RAID0) OS installed.
slot4 Pro100+
slot5 Pro100+
slot6 Pro 100+ DP
slot7 Pro 100+
slot8 Ql2200
slot9 Ql2200
slot10 Ql2200



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RC1 (2.4.7-2 I think)

How Reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see above
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:
sluggish mouse

Expected Results:
mouse reacts quickly

Additional Information:
Dell TeamTrack #DFCT39801, sev 2.
Comment 1 Michael K. Johnson 2001-10-04 18:59:47 UTC 
Text console mouse is done through a process (gpm) that is competing for
CPU time with everything else the system is doing.  I do not think this
is a bug.
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