Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test2-mm1 | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:47:55 +1000 |
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:38, Diego Calleja García wrote: > El Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:37:16 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> escribió: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test2 > >/2.6.0-test2-mm1/ > > > > - More CPU scheduler tweaks. > > O10 feels great here; behaviour under heavy load (make -jbignumber) is > great; gcc doesn't starves the rest of the processes; it still allows > X/xchat/xmms/etc do some work and the system remains usable; mp3 doesn't > skip too much (only when it tries to swapin some big process like galeon > but i find that normal; before this the same load in the past starved > anything not classified as "compiler").
Thanks. The swap or even heavy vm thing affecting interactivity is something I've been thinking about for some time but I've yet to figure out a good way to feed back the vm's activity into the scheduler in a meaningful way.
Con
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