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At 10:47 AM 5/22/2003 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>On Thu, 22 May 2003 07:52:44 +0200, Mike Galbraith said:
>
> > It does consider cpu usage though.  Your run history is right there in 
> your
> > accumulated sleep_avg.  Unfortunately (in some ways, fortunate in others..
> > conflict) that information can be diluted down to nothing instantly by new
> > input from one wakeup.
>
>Maybe there should be a scheduler tunable that says how much it should be
>diluted?

I hope not.  Once you use a knob, you _have_ to use it again when you 
change workloads.

         -Mike