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Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc1-np3
From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:26:38 +0200
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On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 02:46 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/2.6.8-rc1-np3/
> 
> More memory management and scheduler work. More to come. The
> -rc1 patch should hopefully just apply to -rc2.
> 
> Again, the scheduler timeslice is set quite large, so adjust
> /proc/sys/kernel/base_timeslice down to probably 64 or 32 for
> good desktop results. Also renice X to -10.

2.6.8-rc2-np3 feels wonderful on my 700Mhz laptop with a base_timeslice
of 32 and X reniced at -10. I'll also test it on my bigger 2Ghz Pentium
IV.

Nice work, Nick.