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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Luca Zini <luca.zini@gmail.com>,
	aagaande@gmail.com, rdelcueto@hotmail.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Subject: Re: scheduler vs hardware? (was Re: another i7  (linux) bug?)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:34:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1264152860.4283.1442.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264152314.12530.8.camel@marge.simson.net>

On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 10:25 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 09:51 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > My laptop does:
> > 
> > 
> > # time nice -n 19 lame -b 256 -V0 -h youcantdothat.wav - > /dev/null
> 
> > real    0m3.273s
> > user    0m3.217s
> > sys     0m0.022s
> > 
> > 
> > # time nice -n 0 lame -b 256 -V0 -h youcantdothat.wav - > /dev/null
> 
> > real    0m1.121s
> > user    0m1.102s
> > sys     0m0.013s
> 
> I don't see any way that can be scheduler (knocks wood).  Could it be
> cpufreq?  IIRC there is or was an ignore nice gizmo in there.

That's a laptop with full desktop bloat, I'm sure either firefox or evo
farted, or both.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-22  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201001211258.23499.luca.zini@gmail.com>
2010-01-21 21:54 ` scheduler vs hardware? (was Re: another i7 (linux) bug?) Alex Chiang
2010-01-22  7:19   ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-22  8:51     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-22  9:10       ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-22  9:25       ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-22  9:34         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-01-22 11:22           ` Luca Zini
2010-01-22 15:58             ` Chris Friesen
2010-01-23  9:43       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-01-22 20:15     ` Luca Zini

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