Re: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity

From: Con Kolivas (kernel@kolivas.org)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 05:56:38 EST


On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:48, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Con Kolivas wrote:
> >On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:32, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >>What you are doing is restricting some range so it can adapt more quickly
> >>right? So you still have the problem in the cases where you are not
> >>restricting this range.
> >
> >Avoiding it becoming interactive in the first place is the answer.
> > Anything more rapid and X dies dead as soon as you start moving a window
> > for example, and new apps are seen as cpu hogs during startup and will
> > take _forever_ to start under load. It's a tricky juggling act and I keep
> > throwing more balls at it.
>
> Well, what if you give less boost for sleeping?

Then it takes longer to become interactive. Take 2.6.0-test2 vanilla - audio
apps can take up to a minute to be seen as fully interactive; whether this is
a problem for your hardware or not is another matter but clearly they are
interactive using <1% cpu time on the whole.

Con

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