Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:08:50 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy v8 |
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Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 10:49, Nick Piggin wrote: > > >>No big changes, this one takes some of the steepness out of the >>timeslice curve and fixes a bug with child priorities which >>might or might not help startup times. Probably no point doing >>any benchmarks on it if they've been done on v7. >> > >I've been playing with it for a while and, from what I've seen until >date, I must say it makes X feel smooth (even when X not reniced, >although I've reniced it to -20). However, it still feels a little bit >slower when forking new processes under heavy load. I'll do some >benchmarking and will post numbers here. >Thanks! >
Hi Felipe, Sorry I can't reply directly to you. Something thinks I'm spam... Anyway, thanks for all your good feedback. The slower fork response is something I haven't been able to get quite right without causing kernel compiles to slow things down _too_ much. I have a few more ideas though.
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