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DateWed, 4 Jan 2006 08:31:16 -0200
FromMarcelo Tosatti <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] sched: Fix adverse effects of NFS client on interactive response
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:18:01PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 January 2006 20:40, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > We suspected that the TASK_INTERACTIVE() logic in kernel/sched.c would
> > be moving some processes directly to the active list, thus starving some
> > others. So we set the nice value of all 48 processes to "nice +19" to
> > disable TASK_INTERACTIVE() and the starvation is gone. However with +19
> > it becomes impossible to use the box interactively while the test runs,
> > which is the case with the default "0" nice value.
> >
> > Are there significant changes between v2.6.11 -> v2.6.14 aimed at fixing
> > this problem?
> 
> The SCHED_BATCH policy Ingo has implemented should help just such a problem.

Yeap, he sent me the patch (which I promised to test), but still haven't. 

Will do ASAP.

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