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Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 20:48:23 +1000
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
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To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity
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Con Kolivas wrote:

>On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:32, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>What you are doing is restricting some range so it can adapt more quickly
>>right? So you still have the problem in the cases where you are not
>>restricting this range.
>>
>
>Avoiding it becoming interactive in the first place is the answer. Anything 
>more rapid and X dies dead as soon as you start moving a window for example, 
>and new apps are seen as cpu hogs during startup and will take _forever_ to 
>start under load. It's a tricky juggling act and I keep throwing more balls 
>at it.
>

Well, what if you give less boost for sleeping?


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