On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
> On both of my quads, the ALR P6/200 X 4 and the intel quad xeon,
> interactive response on the default kernel is not what I would
> call "peppy".
> Once you get 4 processes and 4 cpus, this becomes harder with the
> unix system stuff going on via daemons and the like, but with one
> or two compute-bound processes I'd like to see 'em stick on their
> processors without going overboard and sucking the interactive
> response time into hades or beyond...
You might want to try my scheduler bigpatch (grab from
my home page) and run the CPU pigs as 'sched_idle'
processes.
In the meantime, we will try to fix the kernel for you
so you won't have to use the patch any more after a
bit of trouble from our side :)
cheers,
Rik -- the flu hits, the flu hits, the flu hits -- MORE
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