From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264183AbUHDKrs (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 06:47:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264256AbUHDKrs (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 06:47:48 -0400 Received: from mail004.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.145]:12005 "EHLO mail004.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264183AbUHDKrr (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 06:47:47 -0400 References: <20040802015527.49088944.akpm@osdl.org> <410E3CAF.6080305@kolivas.org> <410F3423.3020409@yahoo.com.au> <41109FCC.4070906@yahoo.com.au> <20040804103143.GA13072@elte.hu> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Con Kolivas To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:47:23 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar writes: Thanks for replying. > * Nick Piggin wrote: > >> Also, basic interactivity in X is bad with the interactive sysctl set >> to 0 (is X supposed to be at nice 0?), however fairness is bad when >> interactive is 1. I'm not sure if this is an acceptable tradeoff - are >> you planning to fix it? > > it also has clear interactivity problems when just running lots of CPU > hogs even with the default interactive=1 compute=0 setting. Can you define them please? I haven't had any reported to me. Cheers, Con