Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:59:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:59:05 -0500 Received: from freeside.toyota.com ([63.87.74.7]:39873 "EHLO freeside.toyota.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:59:05 -0500 Message-ID: <3E78F8C5.9060403@tmsusa.com> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:09:57 -0800 From: jjs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: elenstev@mesatop.com Cc: linux kernel Subject: Re: 2.5.65-mm2 References: <20030319012115.466970fd.akpm@digeo.com> <1048103489.1962.87.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <20030319121055.685b9b8c.akpm@digeo.com> <1048107434.1743.12.camel@spc1.esa.lanl.gov> <1048111359.1807.13.camel@spc1.esa.lanl.gov> <3E78EC63.9050308@tmsusa.com> <1048114307.1511.12.camel@spc1.esa.lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 27 Steven P. Cole wrote >[root@spc1 steven]# cat /proc/sys/sched/max_timeslice >200 >[root@spc1 steven]# echo 50 >/proc/sys/sched/max_timeslice >[root@spc1 steven]# cat /proc/sys/sched/max_timeslice >50 > >Ouch. I inserted the above text saved as a file, and had to wait >over a minute after hitting the OK button. I aborted dbench which was >running 24 clients on ext3 just to finish this. > hmm, I'd always made this sort of change under somewhat quiescent conditions - Interesting results though - it helped on my system in terms of desktop smoothness, i.e. visible stuttering of xterm motion when being dragged around the desktop during dbench - Joe - 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/