Re: interactive task starvation

Mike Galbraith
2006-03-21T14:17:28Z

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 00:53 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> The yardstick for changes is now the speed of 'ls' scrolling in the console.
> Where exactly are those extra cycles going I wonder? Do you think the
> scheduler somehow makes the cpu idle doing nothing in that timespace? Clearly
> that's not true, and userspace is making something spin unnecessarily, but
> we're gonna fix that by modifying the scheduler.... sigh

*Blink*

Are you having a bad hair day??

-Mike