Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964927AbWAWUZo (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:25:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964929AbWAWUZo (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:25:44 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:17062 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964927AbWAWUZn (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:25:43 -0500 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.2 for 2.6.16-rc1 and 2.6.16-rc1-mm1 From: Lee Revell To: Paolo Ornati Cc: Peter Williams , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Chris Han , Con Kolivas , William Lee Irwin III , Jake Moilanen In-Reply-To: <20060123210918.54d4fc75@localhost> References: <43D00887.6010409@bigpond.net.au> <20060121114616.4a906b4f@localhost> <43D2BE83.1020200@bigpond.net.au> <20060123210918.54d4fc75@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:25:37 -0500 Message-Id: <1138047938.21481.11.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 805 Lines: 24 On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 21:09 +0100, Paolo Ornati wrote: > However I've noticed that priority of X fluctuate a lot for unknown > reasons... > > When doing almost nothing it gets prio 6/7 but if I only move the > cursor a bit it jumps up to ~29. > > If I'm running glxgears (with diret rendering ON) the priority stay to > 6/7 and moving the cursor I'm only able to get priority 8. > > Under load X priority goes up and it suffers (cursor jumps a bit). > > IOW: strangeness! This seems right to me, how do you expect X to be treated by the scheduler? Lee - 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/