From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030357AbXCSQgL (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:36:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030361AbXCSQgK (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:36:10 -0400 Received: from ottawa-hs-64-26-128-89.s-ip.magma.ca ([64.26.128.89]:1557 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030357AbXCSQgJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:36:09 -0400 Message-ID: <45FEBBF5.9060002@rtr.ca> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:36:05 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xavier Bestel Cc: Al Boldi , Mike Galbraith , Con Kolivas , ck@vds.kolivas.org, Serge Belyshev , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicholas Miell , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: RSDL v0.31 References: <200703042335.26785.a1426z@gawab.com> <200703172048.46267.kernel@kolivas.org> <1174125534.7734.2.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <200703172355.30989.a1426z@gawab.com> <45FEB54A.3040602@rtr.ca> <1174321617.30876.69.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04> In-Reply-To: <1174321617.30876.69.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:07 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: >> Dell notebook, single P-M-2GHz, ATI X300, open source X.org: >> (1) build a kernel in one window with "make -j$((NUMBER_OF_CPUS + 1))". >> (2) try to read email and/or surf in Firefox/Thunderbird. >> >> Stock scheduler wins easily, no contest. > > What happens when you renice X ? Dunno -- not necessary with the stock scheduler. Nicing the "make" helped with RSDL, though. But again, the stock scheduler "just works" in that regard. I agree with Ingo -- the auto-renice feature is something very useful for desktops, and is missing from RSDL. Cheers