Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 05 janvier 2009 à 00:58 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
>> You mean Scheduler Activations? There's a patch against linux 2.4 ;)
>> We're definitely diving into OS research :)
>
> Well it would be nice if things that was research at the time of Linux
> 2.4 could
Le lundi 05 janvier 2009 à 00:58 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> You mean Scheduler Activations? There's a patch against linux 2.4 ;)
> We're definitely diving into OS research :)
Well it would be nice if things that was research at the time of Linux
2.4 could have turned into usable code now
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Samuel Thibault
wrote:
> That's precisely the kind of thing that makes it better to just leave it
> up to Linux. The case of HPC is quite particular in that you usually
> really precisely control your computation. In the case of
> general-purpose tools, I would r
Josselin Mouette, le Mon 05 Jan 2009 00:47:02 +0100, a écrit :
> There is probably a missing piece here. If you start several pigz
> processes, the kernel only sees processes starting a lot of threads, and
> processes only see a given number of cores. There is no interface that
> allows a process t
Ron Johnson, le Sun 04 Jan 2009 17:40:08 -0600, a écrit :
> On 01/04/09 17:20, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> >Still, it is better to use CPU pinning since you often want finer
> >control than that, and that’s especially true in multi-user environments
> >where resources can be sub-host.
>
> Wouldn't i
Le lundi 05 janvier 2009 à 00:38 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> Sure, but that should be only a user-explicitely-wanting thing. I would
> really not like to see pigz systematically bind threads. What if I e.g.
> want to run several pigz processes at the same time because I have a lot
> of cor
On 01/04/09 17:20, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 23:45 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
It’s already the case in HPC environments, and CPU pinning is certainly
going to be used more widely as the number of cores increases.
And that's a shame. Linux shouldn't be so happy
Josselin Mouette, le Mon 05 Jan 2009 00:20:42 +0100, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault, le Sun 04 Jan 2009 23:45:22 +0100, a écrit :
> > > It’s already the case in HPC environments, and CPU pinning is certainly
> > > going to be used more widely as the number of cores increases.
> >
> > And that's a sha
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 23:45 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > It’s already the case in HPC environments, and CPU pinning is certainly
> > going to be used more widely as the number of cores increases.
>
> And that's a shame. Linux shouldn't be so happy to move tasks between
> CPUs...
Josselin Mouette, le Sun 04 Jan 2009 16:07:25 +0100, a écrit :
> Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 15:49 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit :
> > Sounds like a plan, but I don't feel very comfortable to do that in the
> > Debian package. Let me explain why:
> >
> > - sched_setaffinity method seems to be Lin
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 15:49 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit :
> Sounds like a plan, but I don't feel very comfortable to do that in the
> Debian package. Let me explain why:
>
> - sched_setaffinity method seems to be Linux specific
How is that a problem? You only need to use it in Linux buil
#include
* Guus Sliepen [Sun, Jan 04 2009, 10:45:23AM]:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 09:57:33PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>
> > PS: I plan to hack it a little bit and use syssconf function on Debian
> > systems to determine the real number of CPU cores (#x) since pigz's
> > default value is 8 which
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 09:57:33PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> PS: I plan to hack it a little bit and use syssconf function on Debian
> systems to determine the real number of CPU cores (#x) since pigz's
> default value is 8 which is much more than home systems have nowadays,
> and the performanc
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Eduard Bloch
* Package name: pigz
Version : 2.1.4
Upstream Author : Mark Adler
* URL : http://www.example.org/
* License : ZLib license
Programming Lang: C
Description : Parallel Implementation of GZip
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