Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261674AbVECUKc (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 16:10:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261675AbVECUKc (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 16:10:32 -0400 Received: from h80ad252c.async.vt.edu ([128.173.37.44]:37393 "EHLO h80ad252c.async.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261674AbVECUK0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 16:10:26 -0400 Message-Id: <200505032009.j43K9qQJ023179@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Lee Revell Cc: Haoqiang Zheng , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: question about contest benchmark In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 May 2005 14:29:59 EDT." <1115144999.29445.7.camel@mindpipe> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1115144999.29445.7.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1115150991_3418P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 16:09:51 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1253 Lines: 34 --==_Exmh_1115150991_3418P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 03 May 2005 14:29:59 EDT, Lee Revell said: > But, it seems to me that even if an interactive process briefly goes CPU > bound (due to bloat, bugs, or intent), it should still be scheduled > preferentially to a pure CPU bound process like a build. So you want it to schedule that big image (Evolution) that's already used 5 minutes of CPU since it started (this morning, admittedly) in preference to that cc1 process that will be gone before it's used 2 seconds of CPU, plus all the disk I/O that cc1 performs (hopefully the cache will help here, but it may indeed go to disk to read the source files)? --==_Exmh_1115150991_3418P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFCd9qPcC3lWbTT17ARAq25AJ9xBIOm89gdTh8kmEfC8cQWh+pFswCg2lB9 shjcg0AELsNxWWubRmB02n8= =Hz5r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1115150991_3418P-- - 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/