From: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: 2.5.66-(bk) == horrible response times for non X11 applications
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 08:42:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030409064215.GC10141@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030406182435.5a243297.akpm@digeo.com>
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 06:24:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
...
> the patch below fixes George's setiathome problems (as expected). It
> essentially turns off Linus' improvement, but i dont think it can be fixed
> sanely.
>
> the problem with setiathome is that it displays something every now and
> then - so it gets a backboost from X, and hovers at a relatively high
> priority.
Why are niced processes boosted? Does that make sense?
If only non-niced processes were boosted, wouldn't that pretty much fix
the problem?
Cheers,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-09 6:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-06 22:36 2.5.66-(bk) == horrible response times for non X11 applications Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-07 1:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-09 6:42 ` Jakob Oestergaard [this message]
2003-04-09 8:01 ` Helge Hafting
2003-04-09 8:52 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-04-09 9:10 ` Helge Hafting
2003-04-09 9:26 ` Jakob Oestergaard
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