From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: When running two or more graphics applications the scheduler seems to be alternately pausing each application for a half second or more resulting in jerky stops and starts in each open window. This is on a system running NVIDIA accelerated drivers but I don't think the problem has anything to do with the drivers themselves. If we switch the kernel to one built from Kernel.org sources (2.4.20) the problem goes away. We can run as many GL apps as we like and they are all smooth. This leads me to suspect that there is something in the RedHat kernel scheduler that is different from a stock kernel and is not scheduling applications correctly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All RedHat 8 and 9 kernels so far How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.setup a machine with NVIDIA 3d acceleration 2.run 3 copies of glxgears at once 3.seperate the windows so you can see all 3 at once, note how they keep starting and stopping. Actual Results: You get 3 windows running glxgears, that seem to be getting pre-empted from by the scheduler for about half a second at regular intervals. Expected Results: The three windows should all run relatively smoothly, without obvious pauses. This is what happens if you run a stock 2.4.20 kernel from kernel.org Additional info: We have observed this behavior on every machine we have tested both athlon machines and intel based. All are 2ghz or faster with no other programs running at the time of the test. The problem is always fixed by using a stock 2.4.20 kernel. The problem was first noticed on a RedHat 8 install and has continued with all RedHat 8 updated kernels and with RedHat 9.
sounds like a nvidia interaction with our changed scheduler indeed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73733 ***
Ok, I've retested on several machines with SOFTWARE ONLY GL. This problem does not appear HOWEVER running even one copy of glxgears makes the system almost totaly un-responsive. Moving windows, pulling up menus...etc all take 20-30 seconds if you can get them to work at all. The scheduler appears to be giving all the CPU time to X and leaving nothing for any other task. I don't know if you would call this a bug but I don't recall it happening with RedHat 7.x releases. Possiblly this is an artifact of having X run at nice -10?
My setup: Athlon 2000XP, Gigabyte K7 Triton Motherboard, 512Mb RAM, Matrox G550, RH9 + updates. I'm seeing exactly the problem described above. Two instances of glxgears and the scheduler seems to misbehave. Start four running and the problems are even more pronounced. This is with a *MATROX* card... not an nvidia.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.