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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> The current interactivity booster heuristic does appear to work very
> well - I did an A/B comparison with 2.4.x a while back, and 2.5 is
> distinctly better.

> Let me redescribe the problem:
> 
> - Dual 850MHz PIII, 900M of RAM.
> - Start a `make -j3 vmlinux', everything in pagecache
> - Start using X applications.  Moving a window about is the usual trigger.

please do another thing as well: in addition to applying the -A4 patch,
also renice X to -10.

> But last time I tested Ingo's interactivity patch things were a lot
> better.  I shall retest his latest now.

please do.

	Ingo

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