From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 21:12:12 +1000
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On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 21:03, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Con Kolivas wrote:
> >Then it takes longer to become interactive. Take 2.6.0-test2 vanilla -
> > audio apps can take up to a minute to be seen as fully interactive;
> > whether this is a problem for your hardware or not is another matter but
> > clearly they are interactive using <1% cpu time on the whole.
>
> I think this is a big problem, a minute is much too long. I guess its
> taking this long to build up because X needs a great deal of inertia
> so that it can stay in a highly interactive state right?
>
> If so then it seems the interactivity estimator does not have enough
> information to work properly for X. In which case maybe X needs to be
> reniced, or backboosted, or have _something_ done to help out.

Well we're in agreement there. That's what all this work I've done is about. 
You'll see I've not been just tweaking numbers.

Con

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