Re: interactive task starvation

Con Kolivas
2006-03-21T14:31:04Z

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 01:28, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 01:19 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > What you're fixing with unfairness is worth pursuing. The 'ls' issue just
> > blows my mind though for reasons I've just said. Where are the magic
> > cycles going when nothing else is running that make it take ten times
> > longer?
>
> What I was talking about when I mentioned scrolling was rendering.

I'm talking about the long standing report that 'ls' takes 10 times longer on
2.6 90% of the time you run it, and doing 'ls | cat' makes it run as fast as
2.4. This is what Willy has been fighting with.

Cheers,
Con