With pre3+H7, kernel compiles still take 40% longer with a setiathome
process running at nice +19. This is _not_ the case with the old scheduler.
Ed Tomlinson
> On January 11, 2002 11:24 am, you wrote:
>> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
>> > Noticed something about tasks running with nice 19. They seem to
>> > always get 25-35% of the cpu. This happens with kernel compiles and
>> > some other benchmarking processes. If I kill the setiathome task, the
>> > other processes shoot up to 90% and above.
>>
>> why dont you run the setiathome task at nice +19? that way it'll share
>> CPU time with other niced processes.
>
> Setiathome _is_ running at nice +19... The H6 version cured the 2.4.17
> boot
> problem here. Here are some numbers (H6) for you to consider:
>
> make bzImage with setiathome running nice +19
>
> make bzImage 391.11s user 30.85s system 62% cpu 11:17.37 total
>
> make bzImage alone
>
> make bzImage 397.33s user 32.14s system 92% cpu 7:43.58 total
>
> Notice the large difference in run times...
>
> System is: UP K6-III 400, 512M
>
> Ed Tomlinson
>
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