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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:53:32 +0000 (GMT)
From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?J.D.=20Hood?=" <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: 2.4.20-ac1 hangs IBM Thinkpad
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I have also stopped using 2.4.20-ac1 on my ThinkPad.
It performs much worse than 2.4.20-pre8-ac1 when running
large applications such as OpenOffice.  (It never crashed
on me, though.)  Having read the recent thread on changes
to the scheduler and yield(), I suspect that the problem
is related to that, since the 2.4-ac series has the O(1)
scheduler.

If my suspicion is correct, then I concur with the opinion
that O(1) should not be backported to mainline 2.4.

--
Thomas Hood

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