Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268410AbTGLT7v (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:59:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268415AbTGLT7v (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:59:51 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([208.129.208.51]:63114 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268410AbTGLT7t (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:59:49 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:07:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@bigblue.dev.mcafeelabs.com To: Miguel Freitas cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] SCHED_SOFTRR linux scheduler policy ... In-Reply-To: <1058037226.1196.122.camel@mf> Message-ID: References: <1058017391.1197.24.camel@mf> <1058027672.1196.105.camel@mf> <1058037226.1196.122.camel@mf> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 962 Lines: 23 On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Miguel Freitas wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 13:30, Davide Libenzi wrote: > Since i upgraded my computer recently it's difficult to compare with the > experiments i made before. But basically no, i haven't tried to make > xine smooth under high load. my primary complain was that even a small > background load caused by KSysGuard (KDE system monitor) could make it > drop frames from time to time. with nice values like -2 the problem was > completely fixed. IMMIC (If My Math Is Correct :) you would need a nice -11 to be completely sure that your task will not be preempted by an iteractive SCHED_OTHER (one can go to +5 and the other might go to -5) with the current settings. - 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/