Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:47:17 +0200 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 |
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* Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
> >sure: take a process that uses 85% of CPU time (and sleeps 15% of the > >time) if running on an idle system. Start just two of these hogs at > >normal priority. 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 becomes almost instantly unusable even > >over a text console: a single 'top' refresh takes ages, 'ls' displays > >one line per second or so. Start more of these and the system > >effectively locks up. > > It's only if I physically try and create such a test application that > I can reproduce it. I haven't found any real world load that does that > - but of course that doesn't mean I should discount it. However, > interactive mode off doesn't exhibit it and it should be easy enough > to fix for interactive mode on. Thanks for pointing it out.
cool. Will be curious how it will look like once staircase-sched gets its time-shared slot in -mm next time around :-) But in general i'm quite positive about the staircase scheduler.
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