From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263870AbTH1KIx (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:08:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263871AbTH1KIV (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:08:21 -0400 Received: from dyn-ctb-210-9-243-35.webone.com.au ([210.9.243.35]:50950 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263885AbTH1KGF (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:06:05 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4DD3F1.3020409@cyberone.com.au> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:05:37 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030714 Debian/1.4-2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Samium Gromoff CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy v8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Samium Gromoff wrote: >>It seems to be better than v7 here without X being reniced, >>however renicing X to say -10 always seems to help. >> > > On my box renicing X to -10 causes xmms to skip when i switch > to a next page full of text in xpdf. > This is about mainline, not sure about your patch. > > And yes, my box is p3-500. > > So i generally don`t think it`s wise to renice X to -10. > Well I won't say it won't happen with my patch, but nice is a lot nicer. Give it a try. No, it wouldn't be wise to renice X to -10 if it caused it to starve xmms. I don't think that will happen in my version, so I think it is reasonable to renice X if you know it will have to do more work than other tasks and yet should still be scheduled quickly for good interactivity...