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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: "Nico Schümann" <spam@nico22.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: CFS not suitable for desktop computers
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 15:01:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49FF57AC.7070104@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49FF06D0.80109@nico22.de>

Nico Schümann wrote:
> Thank you Ray Lee and Mike Galbraith for your responses, I ran the 
> script and attached its gathered information.
> 
> Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> How hard is hard?  Can you describe the loads you're having trouble
>> with, and the hardware you're running them on?
>>
>>   
> I could reproduce "hard" load by just compiling the linux kernel, make 
> -j3 while reading mails with Thunderbird, which is not that hard 
> foreground load. Thunderbird starts reacting really slowly while compiling.

I wonder if this could be related to I/O rather than the task scheduler 
proper.

Chris

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-04 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-03 19:26 CFS not suitable for desktop computers Nico Schümann
2009-05-03 23:24 ` Ray Lee
     [not found] ` <1241424835.26855.102.camel@marge.simson.net>
2009-05-04 15:16   ` Nico Schümann
2009-05-04 17:59     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-05-04 21:01     ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2009-05-05  5:42       ` Mike Galbraith
2009-05-05  7:51         ` Mike Galbraith
2009-05-06  8:03     ` Peter Zijlstra

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