Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler

From: Al Boldi
Date: Mon Mar 12 2007 - 13:39:50 EST


jos poortvliet wrote:
> > It only takes one negatively nice'd proc to affect X adversely.
>
> Then, maybe, we should start nicing X again, like we did/had to do until a
> few years ago? Or should we just wait until X gets fixed (after all,
> development goes faster than ever)? Or is this really the scheduler's
> fault?

It's not enough to renice X. You would have to renice it, and any app that
needed fixed latency, to the same nice of the negatively nice'd proc, which
defeats the purpose...


Thanks!

--
Al

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