Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 1 Aug 1996 23:25:02 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: netscape + SIGUNUSED -> 96% CPU |
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Hi,
On Thu, 1 Aug 1996 01:35:40 -2200 (MET DST), Herbert Rosmanith <herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at> said:
> nb: obviously, netscape crashed the day before (1376 div 60 = 22), and > was since then consuming nearly all of the CPU% ... maybe the scheduling > algorithm could be adapted to give lower priority to processes > with high cpu-utilization
It does.
> and make a task-switch occur less frequently.
It does.
That's one of the reasons why linux's interactive behaviour is really pretty good even under load. If I've got a large simulation plus a compile going on in the background, response time in interactive sessions is still instantaneous.
It might be possible to improve the scheduler a bit, but I haven't seen any evidence that we need to.
Cheers, Stephen. -- Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
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