Re: interactive task starvation

[Ingo Molnar]

* Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 March 2006 01:28, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 01:19 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > What you're fixing with unfairness is worth pursuing. The 'ls' issue just
> > > blows my mind though for reasons I've just said. Where are the magic
> > > cycles going when nothing else is running that make it take ten times
> > > longer?
> >
> > What I was talking about when I mentioned scrolling was rendering.
> 
> I'm talking about the long standing report that 'ls' takes 10 times 
> longer on 2.6 90% of the time you run it, and doing 'ls | cat' makes 
> it run as fast as 2.4. This is what Willy has been fighting with.

ah. That's i think a gnome-terminal artifact - it does some really 
stupid dynamic things while rendering, it 'skips' certain portions of 
rendering, depending on the speed of scrolling. Gnome 2.14 ought to have 
that fixed i think.

	Ingo
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