From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933595AbXCKWzt (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:55:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933608AbXCKWzt (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:55:49 -0400 Received: from mail26.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.133.167]:42035 "EHLO mail26.syd.optusnet.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933595AbXCKWzs (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:55:48 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: bert hubert Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:57:01 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070311222945.GA8242@outpost.ds9a.nl> In-Reply-To: <20070311222945.GA8242@outpost.ds9a.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703120957.01315.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 12 March 2007 09:29, bert hubert wrote: > Con, > > Recent kernel versions have real problems for me on the interactivity > front, with even a simple 'make' of my C++ program (PowerDNS) causing > Firefox to slow down to a crawl. > > RSDL fixed all that, the system is noticeably snappier. > > As a case in point, I used to notice when a compile was done because the > system stopped being sluggish. > > Today, a few times, I only noticed 'make' was done because the fans of my > computer slowed down. > > Thanks for the good work! I'm on 2.6.21-rc3-rsdl-0.29. You're most welcome, and thank you for the report :) > Bert -- -ck