From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: interactive task starvation
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:30:33 +1100
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On Wednesday 22 March 2006 01:28, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 01:19 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > What you're fixing with unfairness is worth pursuing. The 'ls' issue just
> > blows my mind though for reasons I've just said. Where are the magic
> > cycles going when nothing else is running that make it take ten times
> > longer?
>
> What I was talking about when I mentioned scrolling was rendering.

I'm talking about the long standing report that 'ls' takes 10 times longer on 
2.6 90% of the time you run it, and doing 'ls | cat' makes it run as fast as 
2.4. This is what Willy has been fighting with.

Cheers,
Con
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