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From: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: RSDL v0.31
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On Saturday 17 March 2007 02:08, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> P.S.  "utter failure" was too harsh.  What sticks in my craw is that the
> world has to adjust to fit this new scheduler.

If a new scheduler has a better 'normal' performance adjusting to its quirks
is fine.  Your testing is important.  We need to understand what needs
to be tweaked and why.  

>>From my POV 0.30 is better than mainline - it handles my load(s) better.

Thanks
Ed Tomlinson