Re: interactive task starvation

[Mike Galbraith]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 00:53 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> The yardstick for changes is now the speed of 'ls' scrolling in the console. 
> Where exactly are those extra cycles going I wonder? Do you think the 
> scheduler somehow makes the cpu idle doing nothing in that timespace? Clearly 
> that's not true, and userspace is making something spin unnecessarily, but 
> we're gonna fix that by modifying the scheduler.... sigh

*Blink*

Are you having a bad hair day??

	-Mike

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