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From: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: 2.5.66-(bk) == horrible response times for non X11 applications
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 08:42:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030409064215.GC10141@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030406182435.5a243297.akpm@digeo.com>

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 06:24:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
...
> the patch below fixes George's setiathome problems (as expected).  It
> essentially turns off Linus' improvement, but i dont think it can be fixed
> sanely.
> 
> the problem with setiathome is that it displays something every now and
> then - so it gets a backboost from X, and hovers at a relatively high
> priority.

Why are niced processes boosted?   Does that make sense?

If only non-niced processes were boosted, wouldn't that pretty much fix
the problem?

Cheers,

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-09  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-06 22:36 2.5.66-(bk) == horrible response times for non X11 applications Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-07  1:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-09  6:42   ` Jakob Oestergaard [this message]
2003-04-09  8:01     ` Helge Hafting
2003-04-09  8:52       ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-04-09  9:10         ` Helge Hafting
2003-04-09  9:26           ` Jakob Oestergaard

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