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On Thu 13.Mar'08 at 13:06:53 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > > > So I would like to ask if swap letting X (and everything else in my > > experience) out of the cpu for extended periods is considered normal > > behaviour, in the sense that nobody is trying to "fix" it (due to it > > being considered impossible to fix)...? Sorry for being off-topic, but I > > run a minimal Window Maker desktop in a P4 3.0 GHz with 512 MB of RAM > > (around 140 MB being used as per 'free'), and trying to load a 380 MB > > text file in xjed editor makes my whole desktop quite unfair... it takes > > tens of seconds to switch desktop, type things in the terminal etc. When > > xjed finishes loading the text file, everything comes back to "fair" > > again. > > I propose you start a new thread about this with proper Subject, and CC > the scheduler maintainers. Right. I am sorry! But the thing I've learned from: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/28/249 makes me _not_ think the scheduler is guilty by itself. Although it may appear so when first-looked upon. Now I think that the problem I was facing that day was also caused by swapping, which makes everything else wait for it to finish. So I am sorry for going off-topic here, but I couldn't resist asking Galbraith about it. Or I should just start a new thread like this? :-) Petition for Ingo writing CFSS: Completely Fair Swap Scheduler | ||||||||||||
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