MOL release candidate available
Christian Jaeger
mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Sun, 1 Feb 2004 23:51 +0100
Everything seems to work now, but it's strange that mol constantly
takes about 9% cpu time with only the finder running (it didn't take
more than 2% cpu in this case with previous versions).=20
VT switch time feels also considerably slower than before. It's strange
since at first video was only 8 bit (or even less?), and it felt super
fast, I then changed resolution back to 16 bit and now even if I switch
back to 256 colors, it's still slower and takes 9% cpu.
Setting
rom_image: /root/MacOSROM
processor: G3
didn't change anything (as expected since rom_image is not used anyway
and processor defaulted to 750 anyway).
I switched off enable_usb, switched off networking, tried with X=20
display off and on, all to no avail.
The cpu eater is a bit of a pity since it both slows down everything and
heats up the laptop.
The mol process eating cpu calls this all the time (strace; about 210=20
times per second):
_newselect(0xe, 0x7ffff6c8, 0, 0, 0x7ffff750) =3D 0
_newselect(0xe, 0x7ffff6c8, 0, 0, 0x7ffff750) =3D 0
...
I'll go on using it, maybe I can narrow it down a bit.
(Well one thing apart from the new kernel and new mol that's unusual for
me is that I have an external usb disc attached and mounted on linux;=20
but then setting enable_usb off didn't help.)
Cheers,
Christian.
ps. this is a powerbook g3 lombard (=3D 333mhz with scsi) w/ 512mb ram,
kernel 2.6.2rc1-ben1, running woody + some recompiled sid stuff.