Re: Scheduler experiences (with Reiser4 bug report)

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Markus Törnqvist wrote:
> Yours truly wrote:
> 
>>I haven't tried nicksched in a while, but it didn't perform as well as
>>Staircase.
> 
> 
> Just gave -rc1-mm3 a shot and had my filesystems say bad things.
> shrike kernel: reiser4 panicked cowardly: assertion failed: extent_get_start(ext) == extent_get_start(&uf_coord->extension.extent.extent)
> /bin/sh: line 1:  4407 Segmentation fault      rm -f fs/xfs/.xfs_bmap.o.d
> 
> 
> Didn't get around to renicing X, but anyway, app launch time was longer
> and the music did twitch a bit when starting the simultaneous kernel
> and glibc compiles. So I'm still on Staircase and don't see any reason
> to change away.
> 
> I retried running as much cpu-intensive stuff as I could on cko5, basically
> ck6, and everything was smooth. Respects to Con for that :)
> 
> This is not a troll nor a flamebait, but an honest question.
> Should the need to re-nice X not be seen as broken behavior?

It would be desirable to have things run without doing that, people will 
undoubtedly call it a bug or tuning, depending on point of view.

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