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Steven P. Cole wrote

>[root@spc1 steven]# cat /proc/sys/sched/max_timeslice
>200
>[root@spc1 steven]# echo 50 >/proc/sys/sched/max_timeslice
>[root@spc1 steven]# cat /proc/sys/sched/max_timeslice
>50
>
>Ouch. I inserted the above text saved as a file, and had to wait
>over a minute after hitting the OK button.  I aborted dbench which was
>running 24 clients on ext3 just to finish this.
>
hmm, I'd always made this sort of change
under somewhat quiescent conditions  -

Interesting results though - it helped on my
system in terms of desktop smoothness, i.e.
visible stuttering of xterm motion when being
dragged around the desktop during dbench -

Joe