From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272535AbTHEKka (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 06:40:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272615AbTHEKka (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 06:40:30 -0400 Received: from c210-49-248-224.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.248.224]:15262 "EHLO mail.kolivas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272535AbTHEKk3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 06:40:29 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:45:39 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 Cc: linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Felipe Alfaro Solana References: <200308050207.18096.kernel@kolivas.org> <200308052022.01377.kernel@kolivas.org> <3F2F87DA.7040103@cyberone.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3F2F87DA.7040103@cyberone.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308052045.39476.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:32, Nick Piggin wrote: > What you are doing is restricting some range so it can adapt more quickly > right? So you still have the problem in the cases where you are not > restricting this range. Avoiding it becoming interactive in the first place is the answer. Anything more rapid and X dies dead as soon as you start moving a window for example, and new apps are seen as cpu hogs during startup and will take _forever_ to start under load. It's a tricky juggling act and I keep throwing more balls at it. Con