On Samstag, 11. August 2007, Grant wrote:
> > > > > The reason I asked is that I have been running this on my AMDX2
> > > > > systems since it has been available with no noticeable degradation,
> > > > > and possibly a little better responsiveness.  I thought maybe you
> > > > > had some experience with it that would contradict my experiences.
> > > > >
> > > > > I always assumed that the "If unsure say no/yes" in the kernel was
> > > > > related to being unfamiliar with the hardware you where configuring
> > > > > the kernel for.
> > > > >
> > > > > That said, all I can really say is that it works for me.
> > > >
> > > > I had it 'in' once too.
> > > >
> > > > And yes, it worked. But I did not see any improvements, so I took it
> > > > out. I deactivate everything I do not need ...
> > > >
> > > >  The big improvements came, when I started using Ingo Molnar's cfs ;)
> > >
> > > Thanks for the info.  Running great.
> > >
> > > CFS sounds interesting.  I'm reading that will be in the main kernel
> > > for 2.6.23.  Still with hardened-sources-2.6.20 here, but looking
> > > forward to it.  Big difference?
> >
> > short: yes
> >
> > long answer: not in gaming (the difference in ut2004 is not very big.
> > Maximum FPS are a little bit lower, minimum FPS a bit higher ... )  but
> > everywhere else is. Desktop is snappier than the 'old' scheduler.
> > Compiling stuff in the background? Even with PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 it was
> > very obvious that something was happening. with cfs I did an emerge -e
> > world (after switching to gcc 4.2) some days ago - emerge running with a
> > niceness of 0 and most of the time I did not even realize that something
> > was happening. I needed to switch to the vt (or use htop) to check that
> > everything was working as it should. Really, from my POV cfs is just
> > great. It does not help with
> > slow-as-hell-swap but that is a completly different story.
>
> Nice.  I game not at all so that's no problem.
>
> This new CPU has (I think) really revealed how slow my hard disk is.
> It's a 320GB Seagate SATA2 (3GB/s) so it's not slow as HDs go, but it
> can't keep up with the CPU and memory (2GB DDR800).  Whenever a video
> stutters

I only see stutters, when swap is involved.

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