On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:36 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:07 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > >> Dell notebook, single P-M-2GHz, ATI X300, open source X.org: > >> (1) build a kernel in one window with "make -j$((NUMBER_OF_CPUS + > 1))". > >> (2) try to read email and/or surf in Firefox/Thunderbird. > >> > >> Stock scheduler wins easily, no contest. > > > > What happens when you renice X ? > > Dunno -- not necessary with the stock scheduler.
Could you try something like renice -10 $(pidof Xorg) ? Xav - 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/