Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Bad interactive behaviour in 2.5.65-66 (sched.c) | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | Date | 31 Mar 2003 10:46:22 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 09:05, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > I don't think it's really bad for system responsiveness. I think the > > > >What drugs are you on? 2.5.65/66 is the worst interactive kernel I've > >ever used, it would be _embarassing_ to release a 2.6-test with such a > >rudimentary flaw in it. IOW, a big show stopper. > > It's only horrible when you trigger the problems, otherwise it's wonderful.
With scheduler tunables (in -mm, for example), setting min_timeslice = max_timeslice = 25 helps a lot with those problems (at least for me) :-)
> > > problem is just that the sample is too small. The proof is that simply > > > doing sleep_time %= HZ cures most of my woes. WRT contest and it's > > > >Irk, that sounds like a really ugly bandaid. > > Nope, it's a really ugly _tourniquet_ ;-) > > >I'm wondering why the scheduler guys aren't all over this problem, > >getting it fixed. > > I think they are.
I hope so ;-)
Felipe Alfaro Solana Linux Registered User #287198 http://counter.li.org
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