On Monday 12 March 2007 19:55, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 19:29 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > I'll save you the trouble. I just checked myself and indeed the load is > > only 1. What this means is that although there are 2 tasks running, only > > one is running at any time making a total load of 1. So, if we add two > > other tasks that add 2 more to the load the total load is 3. However if > > we weight the other two tasks at nice 5, they only add .75 each to the > > load making a weighted total of 2.5. This means that X+Gforce together > > should get a total of 1/2.5 or 40% of the overall cpu. That sounds like > > exactly what you're describing is happening. > > Hmm. So... anything that's client/server is going to suffer horribly > unless niced tasks are niced all the way down to 19?
Fortunately most client server models dont usually have mutually exclusive cpu use like this X case. There are many things about X that are still a little (/me tries to think of a relatively neutral term)... wanting. :( -- -ck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
