Re: interactive task starvation

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 00:33, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 00:13 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 March 2006 00:10, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > How long should Willy be able to scroll without feeling the background,
> > > and how long should Apache be able to starve his shell.  They are one
> > > and the same, and I can't say, because I'm not Willy.  I don't know how
> > > to get there from here without tunables.  Picking defaults is one
> > > thing, but I don't know how to make it one-size-fits-all.  For the
> > > general case, the values delivered will work fine.  For the apache
> > > case, they absolutely 100% guaranteed will not.
> >
> > So how do you propose we tune such a beast then? Apache users will use
> > off, everyone else will have no idea but to use the defaults.
>
> Set for desktop, which is intended to mostly emulate what we have right
> now, which most people are quite happy with.  The throttle will still
> nail most of the corner cases, and the other adjustments nail the
> majority of what's left.  That leaves the hefty server type loads as
> what certainly will require tuning.  They always need tuning.

That still sounds like just on/off to me. Default for desktop and 0,0 for 
server. Am I missing something?

Cheers,
Con