Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:38:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:38:25 -0500 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust42.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.42]:37297 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:38:25 -0500 Subject: Re: [lart] /bin/ps output From: Alan Cox To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Dave Hansen , lkml In-Reply-To: <20021116092424.GY22031@holomorphy.com> References: <3DA798B6.9070400@us.ibm.com> <20021116092424.GY22031@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 17 Nov 2002 00:11:35 +0000 Message-Id: <1037491895.24777.26.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 546 Lines: 12 Bill - so what happens if you trim down the aio, event and ksoftirqd threads to a sane size (you might also want to do something about the fact 2.5 still runs ksoftirq too easily). Intuitively I'd go for a square root of the number of processors + 1 sort of function but what do the benchmarks say ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/