Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: Bad interactive behaviour in 2.5.65-66 (sched.c) | Date | Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:06:18 +1000 |
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:14, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29 2003, Robert Love wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 21:33, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > Are you sure this should be called a bug? Basically X is an interactive > > > process. If it now is "interactive for a priority -10 process" then it > > > should be hogging the cpu time no? The priority -10 was a workaround > > > for lack of interactivity estimation on the old scheduler. > > > > Well, I do not necessarily think that renicing X is the problem. Just > > an idea. > > I see the exact same behaviour here (systems appears fine, cpu intensive > app running, attempting to start anything _new_ stalls for ages), and I > definitely don't play X renice tricks. > > It basically made 2.5 unusable here, waiting minutes for an ls to even > start displaying _anything_ is totally unacceptable.
I guess I should have trusted my own benchmark that was showing this was worse for system responsiveness.
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