On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: > >There will be times when the mainline scheduler feels more interactive > > than this scheduler, and that is because it has significant unfairness > > granted towards interactive tasks. This degree of unfairness in an > > effort to maintain interactivity has been criticised and causes > > problems in certain environments with both loss of fairness, relative > > starvation and is not entirely predictable. > > Well, in 20 minutes of playing, I am so far VERY impressed, the kmail > composer is typing to the screen in unison to my keystrokes, where with > the older version it often went away for 10 or more seconds at a time, > then displayed the last sentence I had typed in one (or 2 sometimes) > swell foop. Now I can back up and correct a typo in real time whereas > before, it was often faster if the typo was half a line back, and the key > repeat so darned slow it was often over a second per character cell > moved, to go grab the mouse, position the cursor on the typo, click, wait > for the indicator to move, and then fix it. Typing is now pleasurable > again. Key repeats seem to remain at the set in the bios key repeat > speed. Amazing. I do believe you have given me back my machine.
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