Re: O(1) scheduler & interactivity improvements

From: Denis Vlasenko (vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 06:36:37 EST


On 23 June 2003 13:50, John Bradford wrote:
> > Maybe I have different a different idea of what "interactive" should be.
>
> [snip]
>
> > moving windows around the screen do feel jerky and laggy at best
> > when the machine is loaded. For a normal desktop usage, I prefer all
> > my intensive tasks to start releasing more CPU cycles so moving a
> > window around the desktop feels completely smooth
>
> That's fine for a desktop box, but I wouldn't really want a heavily
> loaded server to have database queries starved just because somebody
> is scrolling through a log file, or moving windows about doing admin
> work.

Well... a heavily loaded database server is typically sit headless
or with monitor turned off. ;)

Scrolling thru log file won't eat much CPU anyway, and if
your database admin do *lots* of window moving on a heavily
loaded database server... may I suggest looking for a better
admin? ;);)

(*lots* defined as "enough to noticeably slow db querires")

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