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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:42:54 -0600
From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
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Alberto Gonzalez wrote:

> [1] For example, in Arch Linux the group scheduler was first enabled
> in 2.6.25, but due to latency issues it was quickly disabled. But
> after that, the following report claims to have problems with
> everything *GROUP* disabled and that you need to enable CGROUPS to
> solve them (the report links to similar reports on Gentoo and Ubuntu,
> so it seems the confusion is quite general):
> 
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10512

The linked thread talks about latency problems in the CFQ I/O scheduler, 
not the process scheduler.  It appears that enabling CGROUPS helps get 
around the I/O scheduler issues.

Are you sure that you actually want to disable group scheduling for 
processes?

Chris
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