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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.0-test6
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:05:36PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>
> Pedro Larroy wrote:
> >Why not run xmms with SCHED_RR or SCHED_FIFO?
> >
> >
>
> Well because playing an mp3 really is a pitiful task for modern CPUs,
> and the standard scheduler should handle this fine. Also a music skip
> isn't terribly important.
>
> Realtime applications are difficult to make robust and they can easily
> hang the system.
>

I think there are better aproaches for deciding when a task should be
interactive than the current one based in how much does the task sleep.

I'm afraid this selection criteria leads to a scheduler that isn't
predictable for situations that aren't the ones for which is tuned to work.
Of course I may be wrong, but to me, seems that saying explicitly
which tasks are interactive sounds better.

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