From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750739AbWDKK6A (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:58:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750740AbWDKK6A (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:58:00 -0400 Received: from mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.192]:21889 "EHLO mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750739AbWDKK57 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:57:59 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] quell interactive feeding frenzy Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:57:53 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200604091944.28954.a1426z@gawab.com> <1144607596.7408.34.camel@homer> <200604101743.17518.a1426z@gawab.com> In-Reply-To: <200604101743.17518.a1426z@gawab.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604112057.53552.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Al On Tuesday 11 April 2006 00:43, Al Boldi wrote: > After that the loadavg starts to wrap. > And even then it is possible to login. > And that's not with the default 2.6 scheduler, but rather w/ spa. Since you seem to use plugsched, I wonder if you could tell me how does current staircase perform with a load like that? -- -ck