From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>,
Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Peter Lundkvist <p.lundkvist@telia.com>,
akpm@digeo.com, mingo@elte.hu,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bad interactive behaviour in 2.5.65-66 (sched.c)
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:33:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303301233.03803.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1048989922.13757.20.camel@localhost>
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:05, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 20:21, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > Theoretically, with interactivity enhancaments, you'll never need to
> > renice X. In fact, I'm running X with no renice and it feels pretty
> > snappy.
>
> I know.
>
> I was wondering, since we are working on an actual bug here, whether or
> not renicing X is leading to a starvation issue between X and whatever
> is starving. I have seen it before.
>
> My system is responsive, too, and I do not renice X. But it might
> help. Or it might cause starvation issues. We have a bug somewhere...
Are you sure this should be called a bug? Basically X is an interactive
process. If it now is "interactive for a priority -10 process" then it should
be hogging the cpu time no? The priority -10 was a workaround for lack of
interactivity estimation on the old scheduler.
Con
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-30 2:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-29 21:32 Bad interactive behaviour in 2.5.65-66 (sched.c) Peter Lundkvist
2003-03-29 23:23 ` Robert Love
2003-03-30 1:21 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-30 2:05 ` Robert Love
2003-03-30 2:33 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2003-03-30 2:46 ` Robert Love
2003-03-30 3:58 ` Tom Sightler
2003-03-30 5:23 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-30 19:24 ` Tom Sightler
2003-04-01 1:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2003-03-30 14:14 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-30 21:06 ` Con Kolivas
2003-03-31 2:23 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-31 6:35 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-31 7:05 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-31 8:46 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-31 8:54 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-20 3:55 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-04-18 13:58 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-30 10:16 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-30 11:18 ` Mika Liljeberg
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