Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:51:24 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: O(1) scheduler starvation |
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:53:28AM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > I'm running 2.5.72-mm1 with Mike Galbraith's scheduler patches and a > small patch I made myself to improve interactivity (mainly, to stop XMMS > from skipping by adjusting some scheduler parameters). > What's going on here? Is the previous article outdated, or have the > starvation problems been definitively fixed?
The MAX_TIMESLICE change is inappropriate.
There's papering over broken algorithms, and then there's getting really blatant about it -- and MAX_TIMESLICE going from 200 -> 20 is blatant.
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