Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:55:33 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 19:29 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> I'll save you the trouble. I just checked myself and indeed the load is only > 1. What this means is that although there are 2 tasks running, only one is > running at any time making a total load of 1. So, if we add two other tasks > that add 2 more to the load the total load is 3. However if we weight the > other two tasks at nice 5, they only add .75 each to the load making a > weighted total of 2.5. This means that X+Gforce together should get a total > of 1/2.5 or 40% of the overall cpu. That sounds like exactly what you're > describing is happening.
Hmm. So... anything that's client/server is going to suffer horribly unless niced tasks are niced all the way down to 19?
-Mike
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