Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263896AbTH1LAJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:00:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263916AbTH1LAJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:00:09 -0400 Received: from 153.Red-213-4-13.pooles.rima-tde.net ([213.4.13.153]:12550 "EHLO small.felipe-alfaro.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263896AbTH1LAG (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:00:06 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy v8 From: Felipe Alfaro Solana To: Nick Piggin Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <3F4DC208.8050606@cyberone.com.au> References: <3F4DC208.8050606@cyberone.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1062068387.1200.1.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:59:47 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 859 Lines: 19 On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 10:49, Nick Piggin wrote: > No big changes, this one takes some of the steepness out of the > timeslice curve and fixes a bug with child priorities which > might or might not help startup times. Probably no point doing > any benchmarks on it if they've been done on v7. I've been playing with it for a while and, from what I've seen until date, I must say it makes X feel smooth (even when X not reniced, although I've reniced it to -20). However, it still feels a little bit slower when forking new processes under heavy load. I'll do some benchmarking and will post numbers here. Thanks! - 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/