On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: >On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 23:22 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> - interactivity: precise load calculation and load smoothing > >This seems to help quite a bit. > >(5 second top sample) > > 2636 root 15 -5 19148 15m 5324 R 73 1.5 1:42.29 0 > amarok_libvisua 5440 root 20 0 320m 36m 8388 S 18 3.6 3:28.55 > 1 Xorg 4621 root 20 0 22776 18m 4168 R 12 1.8 0:00.63 1 cc1 > 4616 root 20 0 19456 13m 2200 R 9 1.3 0:00.43 0 cc1 > >I no longer have to renice both X and Gforce to achieve a perfect >display when they are sharing my box with a make -j2. X is displaying >everything it's being fed beautifully with no help. I have to renice >Gforce (amarok_libvisual), but given it's very heavy CPU usage, that >seems perfectly fine. > >No regressions noticed so far. Box is _very_ responsive under load, >seemingly even more so than with previous releases. That is purely >subjective, but the first impression was very distinct. > > -Mike
And I have a make -j4 running to apply your patch Mike, and can't tell it from here, no lag. This is another keeper folks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong. -- H.W. Longfellow - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/