Subject: Re: [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy v12
From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>, Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 05:36, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> > Well it would be nice if someone could find out how to do it, but I
> > think that if we want X to be able to get 80% CPU when 2 other CPU hogs
> > are running, you have to renice it.
> 
> OK. So you renice it ... then your two cpu jobs exit, and you kick off
> xmms. Every time you waggle a window, X will steal the cpu back from
> xmms, and it'll stall, surely? That's what seemed to happen before.
> I don't see how you can fix anything by doing static priority alterations
> (eg nice), because the workload changes.
> 

Not here with version 10 of Nick's patch, and X reniced to -10.
I have not had chance to test v12, but will do tonight when I
get home.


Cheers,

-- 
Martin Schlemmer


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