From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268511AbUHQXTo (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:19:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268512AbUHQXTo (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:19:44 -0400 Received: from web13903.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.175.29]:40551 "HELO web13903.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268511AbUHQXTn (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:19:43 -0400 Message-ID: <20040817231942.95635.qmail@web13903.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:19:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Reply-To: spaminos-ker@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Scheduler fairness problem on 2.6 series (Attn: Nick Piggin and others) To: Peter Williams Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <411D50AE.5020005@bigpond.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I tried the actual server with a stress test, and I do eventually get timeouts. I tried with what seemed to be the best setup earlier: pb mode max_ia_bonus set to 0 I tried several values for base_promotion_interval but the system eventually times out after a few hours (it's still better than it used to be, with a stock kernel, it timeouts in less than an hour). Nicolas