Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:54:46 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3 |
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On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We should notice automatically that X is "interactive", thanks to the > fact that interactive tasks wait for it. That's the whole point of my > very simple patch..
the whole compilation (gcc tasks) will be rated 'interactive' as well, because an 'interactive' make process and/or shell process is waiting on it. I tried something like this before, and it didnt work.
> So don't argue about things that are obviously broken. Renicing X is not > the answer, and in fact there have been multiple reports that it makes > XMMS skip sound because it just _hides_ the problem and moves it > elsewhere.
the xine has been analyzed quite well (which is analogous to the XMMS problem), it's not X that makes XMMS skip, it's the other CPU-bound tasks on the desktops that cause it to skip occasionally. Increasing the priority of xine to just -1 or -2 solves the skipping problem.
Ingo
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