From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266003AbUGTQqR (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:46:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266004AbUGTQqR (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:46:17 -0400 Received: from smtp106.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.226]:7601 "HELO smtp106.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266003AbUGTQqP (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:46:15 -0400 Message-ID: <40FD4C4E.7080205@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 02:46:06 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Debian/1.7-5 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: 2.6.8-rc1-np3 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 http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/2.6.8-rc1-np3/ More memory management and scheduler work. More to come. The -rc1 patch should hopefully just apply to -rc2. Again, the scheduler timeslice is set quite large, so adjust /proc/sys/kernel/base_timeslice down to probably 64 or 32 for good desktop results. Also renice X to -10.