Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272615AbTHEKsw (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 06:48:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272634AbTHEKsw (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 06:48:52 -0400 Received: from dyn-ctb-203-221-74-83.webone.com.au ([203.221.74.83]:5637 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272615AbTHEKsc (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 06:48:32 -0400 Message-ID: <3F2F8B77.4020107@cyberone.com.au> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 20:48:23 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030618 Debian/1.3.1-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Felipe Alfaro Solana Subject: Re: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity References: <200308050207.18096.kernel@kolivas.org> <200308052022.01377.kernel@kolivas.org> <3F2F87DA.7040103@cyberone.com.au> <200308052045.39476.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200308052045.39476.kernel@kolivas.org> 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: 865 Lines: 26 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? - 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/