Re: CFS not suitable for desktop computers

[Chris Friesen]

Nico Schümann wrote:
> Thank you Ray Lee and Mike Galbraith for your responses, I ran the 
> script and attached its gathered information.
>
> Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > How hard is hard?  Can you describe the loads you're having trouble
> > with, and the hardware you're running them on?
> >
> >   
> I could reproduce "hard" load by just compiling the linux kernel, make 
> -j3 while reading mails with Thunderbird, which is not that hard 
> foreground load. Thunderbird starts reacting really slowly while compiling.

I wonder if this could be related to I/O rather than the task scheduler 
proper.

Chris
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