Linus Torvalds writes:
> In article <396D156D.80D097B7@toyota.com>, Joel Sloan <jjs@toyota.com> wrote:
> >
> >When I returned to my desk a couple of minutes later, I noticed
> >the "gears" 3D screensaver running at pretty much normal speed.
> >
> >My first thought was "The compile must have died", since in my
> >previous experience, the screensaver would always slow to a crawl
> >during a kernel compile. I logged in and found to my suprise that
> >the kernel compile was still chugging away, the load average was
> >meandering around between 1.5 and 2, and it was 16M into swap.
>
> Heh.
>
> This was actually almost certainly due to a _really_ simple improvement.
>
> As of test4-pre4, the default time-slice for a normal process is just
> 50ms, while it used to be 200ms.
>
> 200ms is way too long a timeslice when working with interactive things:
> it's easily noticeable. 50ms should be much better.
So is the number of ticks (5 now?) now decoupled from the
goodness/dynamic priority level?
Regards,
Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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