From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: luis6674@yahoo.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to disable group scheduler correctly?
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:42:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <488DF70E.20404@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <842240.12654.qm@web53310.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Alberto Gonzalez wrote:
> [1] For example, in Arch Linux the group scheduler was first enabled
> in 2.6.25, but due to latency issues it was quickly disabled. But
> after that, the following report claims to have problems with
> everything *GROUP* disabled and that you need to enable CGROUPS to
> solve them (the report links to similar reports on Gentoo and Ubuntu,
> so it seems the confusion is quite general):
>
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10512
The linked thread talks about latency problems in the CFQ I/O scheduler,
not the process scheduler. It appears that enabling CGROUPS helps get
around the I/O scheduler issues.
Are you sure that you actually want to disable group scheduling for
processes?
Chris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-28 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-25 17:05 How to disable group scheduler correctly? Alberto Gonzalez
2008-07-25 17:38 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-07-27 23:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-07-28 16:47 ` Paul Menage
2008-07-28 17:28 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-07-28 16:42 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
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