Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:03:12 +0530 | From | Apurva Mehta <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] O11int for interactivity |
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* Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> [30-07-2003 13:36]: > Update to the interactivity patches. Not a massive improvement but > more smoothing of the corners. > > [snip] > > _All_ testing and comments are desired and appreciated.
Well, I just put my system under severe natural load using 2.6.0-test2-mm1 and I must say that my system remained as responsive as one could expect. I have a PentiumIII 500Mhz with 192 Mb RAM.
Here's what load was like: 1) Compiling 2.6.0-test2-mm1-O11.1int :) 2) updating spamassassin bayesian filters (This mainly causes heavy disk i/o, the CPU usage is not so high) 3) procmail filtering ~40 emails simultaneously. 4) playing ogg's in xmms 5) switching between viewing pdf's and web-browsing
Window switching remained pretty snappy and there was one skip in the music . The pdf's scrolled at a decent speed too.
All in all I would say that I really cannot expect anything more in terms of responsiveness from my hardware. IMO, there is a limit to the magic a good scheduler can do on limited hardware resources.
The scheduler has certainly come a long way since 2.6.0-test1 ( plus all subsequent patches and versions). Great work.
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