Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:46:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.5.75 |
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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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