Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:48:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: Diego Calleja =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Garc=EDa?= <diegocg@teleline.es>
cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm1
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Diego Calleja [ISO-8859-15] Garc?a wrote:

>
> > to get us so far with this.  The situation re scheduling in 2.5 feels
> > much as the vm situation did in 2.3, in other words, we're halfway down a
> > long twisty road that ends with something that works, after having tried
> > and failed at many flavors of tweaking and tuning.  Ultimately the
> > problem will be solved by redesign, and probably not just limited to
> > kernel code.
>
> I never run 2.3, but 2.5 behaviour has been much better in the past. I used
> to run make -j25 and mp3 didn't skip, X and all apps were still very
> reponsive.

The first releases we shoot out were very good indeed. Now I believe
something got lost in the "evolution". Let's wait Ingo to come back
from Mars :)


- Davide

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