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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:22:51 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: interactive task starvation
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* Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:

> <plug>
> Even a desktop running with these settings is so interactive that I 
> could play a game of Maelstrom (asteroids like thing) while doing a 
> make -j30 in slow nfs mount and barely feel it.  In a local 
> filesystem, I could't feel it at all, so I added a thud 3, irman2 and 
> a bonnie -s 2047 for good measure.  Try that with stock :)
> </plug>

great! Please make sure all the patches make their way into -mm. We 
definitely want to try this for v2.6.17. Increasing starvation 
resistance _and_ interactivity via the same patchset is a rare feat ;-)

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

	Ingo
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