linux-kernel - Re: CFS not suitable for desktop computers

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Date:	Mon, 04 May 2009 15:01:32 -0600
From:	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
To:	Nico Schümann <spam@...o22.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Subject: Re: CFS not suitable for desktop computers

Nico Schümann wrote:
> Thank you Ray Lee and Mike Galbraith for your responses, I ran the 
> script and attached its gathered information.
> 
> Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> How hard is hard?  Can you describe the loads you're having trouble
>> with, and the hardware you're running them on?
>>
>>   
> I could reproduce "hard" load by just compiling the linux kernel, make 
> -j3 while reading mails with Thunderbird, which is not that hard 
> foreground load. Thunderbird starts reacting really slowly while compiling.

I wonder if this could be related to I/O rather than the task scheduler 
proper.

Chris
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