Re: Missing changelog to Ingo's J5 scheduler?

[Rene Rebe <rene.rebe@gmx.net>]

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: Missing changelog to Ingo's J5 scheduler?
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:28:24 +0100 (CET)

> 
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Zdenek Smetana wrote:
> 
> > I can't find it.
> 
> J5 is the next step towards better interactiveness. Lowered the default
> timeslice length from 250 msecs to 150 msecs - long timeslices were
> clearly causing problems for certain applications.

Yes. -J5 is even better here. With -J4 moving windows arround or doing
other GUI intensive stuff was interactive for a short time (1-2
seconds?) - and then the programm lost all interactivity (with some
unniced gcc in the background ...). With -J5 all applications keep
smoth even with two rebuilds (unniced) of a distribution running!

 10:54am  up  1:03,  4 users,  load average: 4.08, 3.08, 2.39
116 processes: 110 sleeping, 5 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 83.6% user, 16.3% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:   513912K av,  498908K used,   15004K free,       0K shrd,  144312K buff
Swap:  524624K av,      92K used,  524532K free                  256536K cached

> there are some changes in my tree that will be -J6, will write a fuller
> changelog, there are cleanups from other people included as well.
> 
> 	Ingo

k33p h4ck1n6
  René

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