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    SubjectRe: interactive task starvation
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    On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 13:59 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
    > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:07:58PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:

    > > I can make the knobs compile time so we don't see random behavior
    > > reports, but I don't think they can be totally eliminated. Would that
    > > be sufficient?
    > >
    > > If so, the numbers as delivered should be fine for desktop boxen I
    > > think. People who are building custom kernels can bend to fit as
    > > always.
    >
    > That would suit me perfectly. I think I would set them both to zero.
    > It's not clear to me what workload they can help, it seems that they
    > try to allow a sometimes unfair scheduling.

    Correct. Massively unfair scheduling is what interactivity requires.

    -Mike

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