Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jul 2000 23:23:50 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Report: Big Improvement in -test3 |
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Linus Torvalds writes: > In article <396D156D.80D097B7@toyota.com>, Joel Sloan <jjs@toyota.com> wrote: > > > >When I returned to my desk a couple of minutes later, I noticed > >the "gears" 3D screensaver running at pretty much normal speed. > > > >My first thought was "The compile must have died", since in my > >previous experience, the screensaver would always slow to a crawl > >during a kernel compile. I logged in and found to my suprise that > >the kernel compile was still chugging away, the load average was > >meandering around between 1.5 and 2, and it was 16M into swap. > > Heh. > > This was actually almost certainly due to a _really_ simple improvement. > > As of test4-pre4, the default time-slice for a normal process is just > 50ms, while it used to be 200ms. > > 200ms is way too long a timeslice when working with interactive things: > it's easily noticeable. 50ms should be much better.
So is the number of ticks (5 now?) now decoupled from the goodness/dynamic priority level?
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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