From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752595AbXCECbw (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2007 21:31:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752598AbXCECbw (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2007 21:31:52 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:29514 "EHLO pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752595AbXCECbv (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Mar 2007 21:31:51 -0500 Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:31:40 -0800 (PST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler In-reply-to: <200703040911.16845.gene.heskett@gmail.com> To: Gene Heskett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Con Kolivas , ck list Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII References: <200703041800.53360.kernel@kolivas.org> <200703040825.42047.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200703050049.50149.kernel@kolivas.org> <200703040911.16845.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: > >There will be times when the mainline scheduler feels more interactive > > than this scheduler, and that is because it has significant unfairness > > granted towards interactive tasks. This degree of unfairness in an > > effort to maintain interactivity has been criticised and causes > > problems in certain environments with both loss of fairness, relative > > starvation and is not entirely predictable. > > Well, in 20 minutes of playing, I am so far VERY impressed, the kmail > composer is typing to the screen in unison to my keystrokes, where with > the older version it often went away for 10 or more seconds at a time, > then displayed the last sentence I had typed in one (or 2 sometimes) > swell foop. Now I can back up and correct a typo in real time whereas > before, it was often faster if the typo was half a line back, and the key > repeat so darned slow it was often over a second per character cell > moved, to go grab the mouse, position the cursor on the typo, click, wait > for the indicator to move, and then fix it. Typing is now pleasurable > again. Key repeats seem to remain at the set in the bios key repeat > speed. Amazing. I do believe you have given me back my machine. What are the specs on your hardware?