From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755064AbXD0AjO (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:39:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755253AbXD0AjO (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:39:14 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.239]:53389 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755057AbXD0AjM (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:39:12 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=lcidI1VYmG+2Qw5cm83sGGZRQFyV62T7nEOiiAz5jvEqZWsab1kccSEj5EjkJ1D0tP2o1ZNNvkQjSi71Jah8K7r40q1Mo+Kr4uuM4TNDn85dqt0hKdVae1hg4M87lHqiJ7uz+9ROmcOP5ACNiA2d1dBqih1Zabou7a4osAB5uU8= From: Gene Heskett Organization: Organization? very little To: Con Kolivas Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:39:07 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Redeeman , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Mike Galbraith , Arjan van de Ven , Peter Williams , Thomas Gleixner , caglar@pardus.org.tr, Willy Tarreau , Mark Lord , Zach Carter , buddabrod References: <20070425214704.GA32572@elte.hu> <200704261041.04838.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200704270848.41416.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200704270848.41416.kernel@kolivas.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704262039.07781.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 26 April 2007, Con Kolivas wrote: >On Friday 27 April 2007 00:41, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 26 April 2007, Redeeman wrote: >> >On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 23:47 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> > >> > >> >> As usual, any sort of feedback, bugreport, fix and suggestion is more >> >> than welcome, >> > >> >well, from my experiences with cfs on workstation/desktop, on amd64 >> >2ghz, cfs doesent measure up to SD at all. >> > >> >audio skips easily, with or without reniced X, and games are not as >> >smooth. also it seems to be much lower throughput. vanilla seems much >> >better by comparisin. > >That's a pretty bad regression for CFS to not even play audio without >stuttering. > >> Well, I don't generally feel as if the few stutters I just heard in a cbs >> news story I just played were anything but dsl glitches here. xmms, >> playing high quality (Q7) oggs from my own drive are dead smoothly done. >> nbc did want to let me play anything because I have adblock enabled, and >> neither did abc but their anims played nicely, fox news smoothly played >> everything I clicked on. >> >> The only problem I've had so far is with a proprietary daemon from belkin, >> which took about 10 kills and restarts after I'd booted to 2.6.21-CFS-v6 >> before it quit wanting a steady 40% of the cpu when it was running. Now >> it only does that when the bulldog gui is running. That's not normal >> either, but getting fixes out of belkin is like breeding elephants, lots >> of yelling and screaming and it takes 22 months to get results. My next >> ups will NOT be a belkin. >> >> X is not reniced here, but I did run kmail up to -5. >> >> Compared to mainline? I still think this is a 100% keeper for desktop >> users like me. > >Hi Gene > >Have you given up on SD testing then since it's stable and CFS is still > shiny and new (and written by Ingo) therefore it must be better? Not necessarily Con. Do you have a fresh one for 2.6.21? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Been Transferred Lately?