Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030393AbWCUOC1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:02:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030394AbWCUOC1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:02:27 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:31901 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030393AbWCUOC0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:02:26 -0500 X-Authenticated: #14349625 Subject: Re: interactive task starvation From: Mike Galbraith To: Con Kolivas Cc: Willy Tarreau , Ingo Molnar , lkml , Andrew Morton , bugsplatter@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <200603220045.54736.kernel@kolivas.org> References: <200603090036.49915.kernel@kolivas.org> <200603220037.52258.kernel@kolivas.org> <20060321134418.GC26171@w.ods.org> <200603220045.54736.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:01:30 +0100 Message-Id: <1142949690.7807.80.camel@homer> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 821 Lines: 20 On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 00:45 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > I give up. Add as many tunables as you like in as many places as possible that > even less people will understand. You've already told me you'll be running > 0,0. Instead of giving up, how about look at the code and make a suggestion for improvement? It's not an easy problem, as you're well aware. I really don't see why you're (seemingly) getting irate. Tunables for this are no different that tunables like CHILD_PENALTY etc etc etc. How many casual users know those exist, much less understand them? -Mike - 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/