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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] O(1) Entitlement Based Scheduler
Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:45:28 +1100
> Peter Williams <peterw@aurema.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Andi Kleen wrote:
>>
>>>Peter Williams <peterw@aurema.com> writes:
>>>
>>>One comment on the patches: could you remove the zillions of numerical Kconfig
>>>options and just make them sysctls? I don't think it makes any sense
>>>to require a reboot to change any of that. And the user is unlikely
>>>to have much idea yet on what he wants on them while configuring.
>>
>>The default initial values should be fine and the default configuration
>>allows the scheduling tuning parameters (i.e. half life and time slice
>> ) to be changed on a running system via the /proc file system.
>
>
> I'm running the 2.6.3-full patch on my workstation now. No tuning applied
> at all. I reniced the X server to -10. When I have two kernel compiles (without any -j*)
> running there is a visible (=not really slow, but long enough to notice something)
> delay in responses while typing something in a xterm. In sylpheed there
> is the same issue.
>
> The standard scheduler didn't show this that extreme with only two compiles.
>

Thanks for the feedback. We're looking at some minor modifications to
try and improve this issue.

BTW Could you try it with the X server reniced to -15?

Thanks
Peter
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