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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>,
	Peter Lundkvist <p.lundkvist@telia.com>,
	akpm@digeo.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bad interactive behaviour in 2.5.65-66 (sched.c)
Date: 29 Mar 2003 21:46:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1048992365.13757.23.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303301233.03803.kernel@kolivas.org>

On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 21:33, Con Kolivas wrote:

> Are you sure this should be called a bug? Basically X is an interactive 
> process. If it now is "interactive for a priority -10 process" then it should 
> be hogging the cpu time no? The priority -10 was a workaround for lack of 
> interactivity estimation on the old scheduler.

Well, I do not necessarily think that renicing X is the problem.  Just
an idea.

We do have a problem, though.  Nearly indefinite starvation and all sort
of weird effects like bash not able to create a new process... its a
bug.

Renicing X, aside from some weird client-server starvation issues with
stuff like multimedia programs, should not cause any problem.  It should
help, in fact.  But, you are right, its not needed in the current
scheduler.

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-30  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-29 21:32 Bad interactive behaviour in 2.5.65-66 (sched.c) Peter Lundkvist
2003-03-29 23:23 ` Robert Love
2003-03-30  1:21   ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-30  2:05     ` Robert Love
2003-03-30  2:33       ` Con Kolivas
2003-03-30  2:46         ` Robert Love [this message]
2003-03-30  3:58           ` Tom Sightler
2003-03-30  5:23             ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-30 19:24               ` Tom Sightler
2003-04-01  1:41               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2003-03-30 14:14           ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-30 21:06             ` Con Kolivas
2003-03-31  2:23               ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-31  6:35                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-31  7:05                   ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-31  8:46                     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-31  8:54                     ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-20  3:55                       ` Mike Galbraith
2003-04-18 13:58                   ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-30 10:16       ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-30 11:18   ` Mika Liljeberg

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