Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ANN] ulatencyd 0.3.1 | From | Vasiliy G Tolstov <> | Date | Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:03:34 +0300 |
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On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 11:57 +0100, Daniel Poelzleithner wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm happy to announce the release of ulatencyd 0.3.1 > > What is it ? > ============ > > ulatencyd is a scriptable daemon which constantly optimises the Linux > kernel for best user experience. > The default configuration tries reduce the latency for a typical desktop > system and protects the system from malicious processes/groups. > With a different configuration all other types of systems can be > adjusted as well. > > Website: <https://github.com/poelzi/ulatencyd/> > > • Ubuntu PPA: <https://launchpad.net/~poelzi/+archive/ulatencyd-stable> > • Latest Release: > <https://github.com/downloads/poelzi/ulatencyd/ulatencyd-0.3.1.tar.gz> > > > What's new in 0.3 (very short version)? > ======================================= > > • X-Server plugin which monitors the active windows and gives more > priority to the recently active windows. > • Full scripted scheduler with flexible configuration that allows easy > adjustment of the resulting cgroups and parameters. > • Protection rules against common cases of memory shortage, also known > as the swap of death (even without swap). > • Scheduler configuration for desktop systems > • Fast C core with Lua embedding. Intelligent caching to reduce the > load on filter rules and scheduler. > • Very detailed API for system inspection and adjustment. > • Rudimentary Rules for popular Desktop Environments KDE & Gnome > > > Does it work ? > ============== > > Yes. Of course it is possible to still cause a swap of death or overload > the system so much, that it starts to get lag. But typical cases get > caught by the current rules. A make -j 50 of the linux kernel > on my dual core machine with 4 GB ram let me still work on the machine > quite well, but a make -j 80 still locks it down for like 4 minutes. > This is most likely because the heavy swapping done on the isolation > groups (their main memory usage is restraint). This may be fixed by > using the blockio subsystem, but this is not used yet. Planned for the > next version. > > > kind regards > Daniel Poelzleithner >
Hello! May be offtopic, bu does ulatencyd works well together with systemd init system?
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