linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

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Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:41:37 +0300
From:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
To:	jos poortvliet <jos@...nkamer.nl>, ck@....kolivas.org
Cc:	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

jos poortvliet wrote:
> > It only takes one negatively nice'd proc to affect X adversely.
>
> Then, maybe, we should start nicing X again, like we did/had to do until a
> few years ago? Or should we just wait until X gets fixed (after all,
> development goes faster than ever)? Or is this really the scheduler's
> fault?

It's not enough to renice X.  You would have to renice it, and any app that 
needed fixed latency, to the same nice of the negatively nice'd proc, which 
defeats the purpose...


Thanks!

--
Al

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