Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

Mark Lord
2007-04-22T13:30:38Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> well, i just simulated a runaway X at nice -19 on CFS (on a UP box), and
> while the box was a tad laggy, i was able to killall it without
> problems, within 2 seconds that also included a 'su'. So it's not an
> issue in CFS, it can be turned off, and because every distro has another
> way to renice Xorg, this is a convenience hack until Xorg standardizes
> it into some xorg.conf field. (It also makes sure that X isnt preempted
> by other userspace stuff while it does timing-sensitive operations like
> setting the video modes up or switching video modes, etc.)

Good!