From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264346AbUHDLme (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:42:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264373AbUHDLme (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:42:34 -0400 Received: from outpost.ds9a.nl ([213.244.168.210]:8860 "EHLO outpost.ds9a.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264346AbUHDLmd (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:42:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 13:42:32 +0200 From: bert hubert To: Nick Piggin Cc: Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Message-ID: <20040804114232.GA23285@outpost.ds9a.nl> Mail-Followup-To: bert hubert , Nick Piggin , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040802015527.49088944.akpm@osdl.org> <410E3CAF.6080305@kolivas.org> <410F3423.3020409@yahoo.com.au> <41109FCC.4070906@yahoo.com.au> <4110BB88.3030400@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4110BB88.3030400@yahoo.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:33:44PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > >Well duh... disable interactivity and interactivity is bad. What's the > >problem? It's not meant to be used on a desktop in that way. > > Well why would you want to disable it then? When not on a desktop of course - most servers don't care about X interactivity but do care a lot about 'nice', and would not want to grant a process the CPU (unfairly) longer to satisfy the human need for snappy responses. -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://lartc.org Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO