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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:12:43 +0000 (   )
From: John Heil <kerndev@sc-software.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) ...
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:09:16 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
>     Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
>     Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) ...
> 
> > to CD-RW disks without having to know about things like "ide-scsi" etc,
> > and do it sanely over different bus architectures etc.
> > 
> > The scheduler simply isn't that important.
> 
> The scheduler is eating 40-60% of the machine on real world 8 cpu workloads.
> That isn't going to go away by sticking heads in sand.

What % of a std 2 cpu, do you think it eats?

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