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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:36:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Tobias Ringstrom <tori@ringstrom.mine.nu>
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Subject: Re: Problem with the O(1) scheduler in 2.4.19
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On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:

> While the O(1) scheduler has performed very well for me in most
> situations, I have one big problem with it.  When running a
> Counter-Strike game server on Linux 2.4.19 with the sched-2.4.19-rc2-A4
> patch applied, the server process is niced from the default value of 15
> (interactive) to 25 (background).  This means that every time crond
> wakes up or a mail arrives the game latency becomes extremely bad and
> the users experience lag.

does the same problem happen if you renice the game server to -10 or -15?

	Ingo

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