Re: Which kernel is the best for a small linux system?

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 03:14:40 EST


On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 08:29 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> and there are some active methods as well: you might want to try Mike
> Galbraith's scheduler throttling feature:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/3/59
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/3/63
>
> (which we could try in -mm too perhaps, perhaps Mike has an updated
> patch for 2.6.16-rc6-mm1?)

Yeah, the whole thing is in the attached tarball. The only significant
difference from last posted version is that setting both tunables to 0
causes 100% of the interactivity stuff to be disabled, returning the
scheduler to pure O(1), but with it's ability to starve mostly neutered.

-Mike

(delicate tummy warning may be appropriate.. dunno;)

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