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From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm2
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 13:42:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040804114232.GA23285@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4110BB88.3030400@yahoo.com.au>

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:33:44PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:

> >Well duh... disable interactivity and interactivity is bad. What's the 
> >problem? It's not meant to be used on a desktop in that way.
> 
> Well why would you want to disable it then?

When not on a desktop of course - most servers don't care about X
interactivity but do care a lot about 'nice', and would not want to grant a
process the CPU (unfairly) longer to satisfy the human need for snappy
responses.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-04 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-02  8:55 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Andrew Morton
2004-08-02  9:23 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Espen Fjellvær Olsen
2004-08-02 12:10 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Rik van Riel
2004-08-05 10:56   ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Hideo AOKI
2004-08-05 12:55     ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Hideo AOKI
2004-08-02 13:07 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-03  6:43   ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Nick Piggin
2004-08-03  7:35     ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-03  7:43       ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Nick Piggin
2004-08-03  7:45       ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-04  8:35         ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Nick Piggin
2004-08-04 10:12           ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-04 10:33             ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Nick Piggin
2004-08-04 11:42               ` bert hubert [this message]
2004-08-05  1:21                 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Nick Piggin
2004-08-04 10:31           ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-04 10:46             ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Nick Piggin
2004-08-04 10:47             ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-04 12:45               ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-05  2:53                 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-05  8:34                   ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Helge Hafting
2004-08-05  9:34                     ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-05 10:47                   ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-02 13:52 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-02 16:12   ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-02 14:28 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-02 15:31 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Mark Watts
2004-08-02 15:33   ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Jesper Juhl
2004-08-02 15:38   ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Dominik Karall
2004-08-02 16:02     ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Mark Watts
2004-08-03  6:55   ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-08-02 15:57 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Martin Zwickel
2004-08-02 17:59 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-08-02 18:15 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Peter Osterlund
2004-08-02 22:16 ` [patch] 2.6.8-rc2-mm2: compile error with SWAP=n Adrian Bunk
2004-08-03  8:27 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Mark Watts
2004-08-03 13:05   ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 R. J. Wysocki
2004-08-03 13:13 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Con Kolivas
2004-08-03 19:44 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Adrian Bunk
2004-08-04 16:32 ` 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Dominik Karall
2004-08-05  4:38 ` [sparc32] [1/13] turbosparc flush warnings William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  4:39   ` [sparc32] [2/13] sparc32 init_idle() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  4:41     ` [sparc32] [3/13] sun4d cpu_present_map is a cpumask_t William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  4:44       ` [sparc32] [4/13] smp_processor_id() BITFIXUP fixes William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  4:46         ` [sparc32] [5/13] reinstate smp_reschedule_irq() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  4:47           ` [sparc32] [6/13] remove references to start_secondary() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  4:48             ` [sparc32] [7/13] remove references to num_context_patch2 William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  4:49               ` [sparc32] [8/13] define cache_decay_ticks William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  4:54                 ` [sparc32] [9/13] remove unused variable in dvma.c William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  4:55                   ` [sparc32] [10/13] sun4 does not support SMP William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  4:56                     ` [sparc32] [11/13] make CONFIG_SMP depend on CONFIG_BROKEN William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  5:01                       ` [sparc32] [12/13] gcc-3.3 macro parenthesization fix for memcpy.S William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  5:31                         ` [sparc32] [13/13] ignore undefined symbols with 3 or more leading underscores William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-05  7:28                         ` [sparc32] [12/13] gcc-3.3 macro parenthesization fix for memcpy.S Jakub Jelinek
2004-08-05  7:38                           ` William Lee Irwin III

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