Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.2 for 2.6.16-rc1 and2.6.16-rc1-mm1

[Paolo Ornati]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:59:38 -0500
Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Maybe this is normal and depends on the way X sleeps or something...
> > 
> 
> Because the scheduler favors interactive tasks (aka those which spend a
> large % of time waiting on external events) and X is only considered
> interactive when the mouse is being moved.  When glxgears is running
> it's CPU bound and is therefore penalized.

??

The reverse... lower priority number means BETTER priority. So Actually
X is penalized when I'm moving the mouse.

And running "glxgears" doesn't make X CPU bounded if direct rendering
is enabled -- it is GPU bounded...

In fact I can run "glxgears" and still have 97% of IDLE CPU time.

-- 
	Paolo Ornati
	Linux 2.6.16-rc1-plugsched on x86_64
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