From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030186AbWAWVJe (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:09:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030184AbWAWVJe (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:09:34 -0500 Received: from 213-140-2-70.ip.fastwebnet.it ([213.140.2.70]:14485 "EHLO aa003msg.fastwebnet.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030186AbWAWVJd (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:09:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:10:17 +0100 From: Paolo Ornati To: Lee Revell Cc: Peter Williams , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Chris Han , Con Kolivas , William Lee Irwin III , Jake Moilanen Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.2 for 2.6.16-rc1 and 2.6.16-rc1-mm1 Message-ID: <20060123221017.2d393c83@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1138049979.21481.25.camel@mindpipe> References: <43D00887.6010409@bigpond.net.au> <20060121114616.4a906b4f@localhost> <43D2BE83.1020200@bigpond.net.au> <20060123210918.54d4fc75@localhost> <1138047938.21481.11.camel@mindpipe> <20060123215231.04b38886@localhost> <1138049979.21481.25.camel@mindpipe> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc3 (GTK+ 2.8.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:59:38 -0500 Lee Revell wrote: > > Maybe this is normal and depends on the way X sleeps or something... > > > > Because the scheduler favors interactive tasks (aka those which spend a > large % of time waiting on external events) and X is only considered > interactive when the mouse is being moved. When glxgears is running > it's CPU bound and is therefore penalized. ?? The reverse... lower priority number means BETTER priority. So Actually X is penalized when I'm moving the mouse. And running "glxgears" doesn't make X CPU bounded if direct rendering is enabled -- it is GPU bounded... In fact I can run "glxgears" and still have 97% of IDLE CPU time. -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.16-rc1-plugsched on x86_64