Re: 2.6.17-ck1

[Con Kolivas]

On Monday 19 June 2006 01:06, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and
> > interactivity. It is configurable to any workload but the default ck
> > patch is aimed at the desktop and cks is available with more emphasis on
> > serverspace.
>
> Last time (2.6.17-rc6-ck1), I had a strange experience over the regular
> scheduler. When three gccs were competing for time, each of them got a time
> window of 1/3 second in which each ran at 99%.
> The regular scheduler does it in a way so that each time window is as small
> as possible, that is, top shows 33% for each process on low top
> udating intervals like 0.1 sec.
> This behavior was not observed with 2.6.16-rcX-ck.

Were you running them SCHED_IDLEPRIO or in compute mode? They would do that.

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