At 08:41 PM 8/25/2003 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>Hi,

Greetings,

>I didn't miss 5 revisions, I'll just stick to using my internal
>numbering for releases.
>
>This one has a few changes. Children now get a priority boost
>on fork, and parents retain more priority after forking a child,
>however exiting CPU hogs will now penalise parents a bit.
>
>Timeslice scaling was tweaked a bit. Oh and remember raising X's
>priority should _help_ interactivity with this patch, and IMO is
>not an unreasonable thing to be doing.
>
>Please test. I'm not getting enough feedback!

Heavy parallel make throughput is still down a little over 10%, but X 
choppiness is markedly improved.  Test-starve is now working.  One thing 
that I noticed is that irman takes quite a bit longer to complete than with 
stock.  I've attached the results of that, plus some contest numbers.  My 
local variant of contest has a couple of differences to stock: dbench 
doesn't run so many instances, and list_load is just a small tree being 
md5summed.  There are two additional loads as well.  ab_load is an ancient 
apache bench jabbering with an also ancient apache (boring static page via 
localhost)... you can guess what irman2_load is :)

         -Mike