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
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