Messages in this thread | | | From | Ed Tomlinson <> | Subject | Re: o(1) to the rescue | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2002 07:31:41 -0500 |
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On January 18, 2002 05:21 am, Helge Hafting wrote: > Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > Try this with and without the o(1) scheduler (J0). > > > > Create a dir full of 1 meg or so jpegs. Fire up kde. Try using the > > Tools/Create image gallery. > > With the standard scheduler linux is unusable - it stalls for most of the > > processing time for > > each image. With o(1) its just a little jerky - still usable though (a > > gallery is building as I > > type this). > > I guess this thing starts a thread per image? That would > give a lot of _running_ processes, which is exactly what > the O(1) scheduler improves.
No. Just one thread running. I think its the fact that o(1) detects when a task is no longer interactive. KDE is normally very interactive, when building a gallery parts of it are not. o(1) detect this and adjusts itself.
This is on a UP K6-III 400 with 512M memory.
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