On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:45:28 +1100
Peter Williams <peterw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Andi Kleen wrote:
Peter Williams <peterw@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
One comment on the patches: could you remove the zillions of numerical Kconfig
options and just make them sysctls? I don't think it makes any sense to require a reboot to change any of that. And the user is unlikely
to have much idea yet on what he wants on them while configuring.
The default initial values should be fine and the default configuration allows the scheduling tuning parameters (i.e. half life and time slice ) to be changed on a running system via the /proc file system.
I'm running the 2.6.3-full patch on my workstation now. No tuning applied
at all. I reniced the X server to -10. When I have two kernel compiles (without any -j*) running there is a visible (=not really slow, but long enough to notice something) delay in responses while typing something in a xterm. In sylpheed there
is the same issue.
The standard scheduler didn't show this that extreme with only two compiles.