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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:23:08 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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To: J Sloan <jjs@lexus.com>
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Subject: Re: Testing the effects of the low latency patch
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J Sloan wrote:
> 
> >>2.4.18-pre6+tux+nfs-fixes
> >>-------------
> >>...
> >>7.6 1
> >>7.8 1
> >>21.1 1
> >>
> >
> >This is the stock kernel.  In twenty minutes you suffered
> >precisely *one* scheduling overrun which is perceptible
> >by a human.  The rest are much shorter than your monitor's
> >refresh interval.  Interesting, yes?
> >
> Yes, the stock kernel is much improved from
> say 6 months ago. I will take a look at the
> kernel that shipped with my distro just for
> giggles as well...
> 

Was you histogram generated during a game session, or during
dbench?  write()-intensive workloads are the main common
offender.

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