Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: interactive task starvation | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:37:51 +1100 |
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On Wednesday 22 March 2006 00:33, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 00:13 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 March 2006 00:10, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > How long should Willy be able to scroll without feeling the background, > > > and how long should Apache be able to starve his shell. They are one > > > and the same, and I can't say, because I'm not Willy. I don't know how > > > to get there from here without tunables. Picking defaults is one > > > thing, but I don't know how to make it one-size-fits-all. For the > > > general case, the values delivered will work fine. For the apache > > > case, they absolutely 100% guaranteed will not. > > > > So how do you propose we tune such a beast then? Apache users will use > > off, everyone else will have no idea but to use the defaults. > > Set for desktop, which is intended to mostly emulate what we have right > now, which most people are quite happy with. The throttle will still > nail most of the corner cases, and the other adjustments nail the > majority of what's left. That leaves the hefty server type loads as > what certainly will require tuning. They always need tuning.
That still sounds like just on/off to me. Default for desktop and 0,0 for server. Am I missing something?
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