Re: interactive task starvation

Ingo Molnar
2006-03-20T10:25:03Z

* Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:

> <plug>
> Even a desktop running with these settings is so interactive that I
> could play a game of Maelstrom (asteroids like thing) while doing a
> make -j30 in slow nfs mount and barely feel it. In a local
> filesystem, I could't feel it at all, so I added a thud 3, irman2 and
> a bonnie -s 2047 for good measure. Try that with stock :)
> </plug>

great! Please make sure all the patches make their way into -mm. We
definitely want to try this for v2.6.17. Increasing starvation
resistance _and_ interactivity via the same patchset is a rare feat ;-)

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Ingo