Re: interactive task starvation

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 21:56 -0800, Ray Lee wrote:
> Do any of the above WAGs match what you see? If so, then perhaps it's
> random just due to the order in which the tasks get initially
> scheduled (dmesg vs ssh, or dmesg vs xterm vs X -- er, though I guess
> in that latter case there's really <thinks> three separate timings
> that you'd get back, as the triple set of tasks could be in one of six
> orderings, one fast, one slow, and four equally mixed between the
> two).
> 

Possibly - *very* rarely, like 1 out of 50 or 100 times, it falls
somewhere in the middle.

Lee

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