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From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
	Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>,
	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: 31 Mar 2003 10:46:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1049100382.638.2.camel@teapot> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030331085710.01aa6d30@pop.gmx.net>

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 09:05, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > I don't think it's really bad for system responsiveness.  I think the
> >
> >What drugs are you on? 2.5.65/66 is the worst interactive kernel I've
> >ever used, it would be _embarassing_ to release a 2.6-test with such a
> >rudimentary flaw in it. IOW, a big show stopper.
> 
> It's only horrible when you trigger the problems, otherwise it's wonderful.

With scheduler tunables (in -mm, for example), setting min_timeslice =
max_timeslice = 25 helps a lot with those problems (at least for me) :-)

> > > problem is just that the sample is too small.  The proof is that simply
> > > doing sleep_time %= HZ cures most of my woes.  WRT contest and it's
> >
> >Irk, that sounds like a really ugly bandaid.
> 
> Nope, it's a really ugly _tourniquet_ ;-)
> 
> >I'm wondering why the scheduler guys aren't all over this problem,
> >getting it fixed.
> 
> I think they are.

I hope so ;-)

        Felipe Alfaro Solana
   Linux Registered User #287198
http://counter.li.org


  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-31  8:35 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
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 [this message]
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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