From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272661AbTHPJKx (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Aug 2003 05:10:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272672AbTHPJKx (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Aug 2003 05:10:53 -0400 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:1497 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272661AbTHPJKw (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Aug 2003 05:10:52 -0400 From: Rob Landley Reply-To: rob@landley.net To: George Anzinger Subject: Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 05:10:44 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: LKML References: <1059211833.576.13.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <200308132024.36967.rob@landley.net> <3F3B41C7.1000906@mvista.com> In-Reply-To: <3F3B41C7.1000906@mvista.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308160510.44627.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 14 August 2003 04:01, George Anzinger wrote: > >>Well said :) > > > > Actually, I didn't really consider that list of straw man arguments to be > > worth commenting on the first time around. (I thought he was being > > sarcastic...) > > Well, I think he was too, but I am trying to say (as I think you are > too) that it is not far from being a realistic goal. 2.5 already seems to be scheduling better for me, although I'm still mostly running 2.4 on my new laptop until I figure out how to properly configure all the new hardware. (APM suspends, and then never comes back until you yank the #*%(&# battery. Great. Trying it with the real mode bios calls next reboot...) > As to timing, I just changed ISPs and was off line for a few days... I got caught in a downpour with my laptop in my backpack, and didn't realise the water resistant coating on my backpack had worn away until I turned the thing on and the display shorted out. After two days of drying out, the display was still screwed up, so I just bought a used thinkpad (iseries 1300, quite a nice little machine) and swapped the hard drive and some ram from my old toshiba. (Kudzu actually did something useful for once. :) I think I've figured out why X is giving me an 800x600 window on a 1024x768 display screen (with a big black border). Why XFree86 freezes the box solid for ten seconds at a time while KDE is probing the hardware devices, that I don't know. (Google suggests the USB is funky. I'll see if 2.5 fixes it, all I know of 2.5 on this box is that it booted to text mode and then shut down again ok...) I'm likely to be a bit distracted for a while yet, not counting catching up, being out of town for a weekend, and of course the fall semester starting in two weeks. Luckily, they make caffeine for just such occasions... Rob