Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 20:05:00 +0200
From: Diego Calleja =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Garc=EDa?= <aradorlinux@yahoo.es>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test4-mm5
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El Sat, 06 Sep 2003 02:17:22 +1000 Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> escribi?:

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> I think Martin is right here. I don't know what would be a good reason
> for wanting X to work nicely with a make -j25 running. X typically
> needs at least 75% CPU on my box to be nicely interactive when moving
> a window or scrolling something complex. This gives only 1% to each
> cc1.

I know; obiously it has not sense to ask that people makes -j25
smooth here; there's no way of doing that (with gcc 3.x :)

I just pointed out that -mm4 was a bit better under that load, specially
mp3 skips.


> So I've found I'm getting more consistent behaviour, but it is now
> very dependant on nice to get X running well under load. I'm
> concentrating on getting it working well with make -j <= 6.

I just hope 2.6 is shipped with a "decent" scheduler. Mp3 players are
probably the most important apps nowadays :P


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