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SubjectRe: Linux 2.5.75
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > Sometime ago, I made down a combo patch and, sincerely, it's the one I'm
> > using the most for my desktop boxes as it's the one that gets better
> > response times and interactive feeling. For my server boxes, neither my
> > combo patch, neither Con or stock do feel good when the system is under
> > heavy load. It suffers from starvation. Simply doing a "tar jxvf" makes
> > logging into the system a PITA.
>
> And this one is almost certainly not a process scheduler issue, but an IO
> scheduler one. 2.5.75 may help that a bit - anticipatory IO scheduling
> from the -mm tree, and a much simpler (and in my tests, noticeably faster
> and more robust) executable mmap prefetcher.
>
> But as with process scheduling, I don't believe in "perfect". It will just
> have to be "good enough for a lot of people".

Indeed. Yesterday while I was doing the SOFTRR hack I had after a quite
long time the opportunity to test the current scheduler interactivity. To
me it looks very good. My usual `make -j 40 bzImage` let my system
completely usable. If all this noise was for the tar thingy maybe we are
responsible to not have well read the thread to stop it soon.



- Davide

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