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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [patch] O(1) scheduler, -D1, 2.5.2-pre9, 2.4.17
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On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Mike Kravetz wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Chat - VolanoMark simulator.  Result is a measure of throughput.
>        Higher is better.

very interesting numbers, nice work Mike! I'd suggest the following
additional test: please also run tests like VolanoMark with 'nice -n 19'.
The O(1) scheduler's task-penalty method works in our favor in this case,
since we know the test is CPU-bound we can move all processes to nice
level 19.

	Ingo

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