Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266433AbTGETlV (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:41:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266439AbTGETlV (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:41:21 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([208.129.208.51]:47241 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266433AbTGETlU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:41:20 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:48:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@bigblue.dev.mcafeelabs.com To: Diego Calleja =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Garc=EDa?= cc: Daniel Phillips , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.5.74-mm1 In-Reply-To: <20030705214006.37a52d15.diegocg@teleline.es> Message-ID: References: <20030703023714.55d13934.akpm@osdl.org> <200307050216.27850.phillips@arcor.de> <200307051728.12891.phillips@arcor.de> <20030705214006.37a52d15.diegocg@teleline.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1026 Lines: 26 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 - 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/