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Subject: Re: voluntary-preempt I0: sluggish feel
From: Robert Love <rml@ximian.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 20:01 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> i can reproduce this and i dont have the NVIDIA driver. When logging in
> over the network then shell output is chunky with a setting of 2
> (softirq redirection), shell output is smooth with a value of 1.

Almost certainly the fact that ksoftirqd runs as nice 19.

	Robert Love