Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-21 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:47 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > >> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > >> > >>> I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe > >>> (communic

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-20 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Tuesday 20 March 2007, schreef Linus Torvalds: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > > >> 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 -

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-20 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Tuesday 20 March 2007, schreef Bill Davidsen: > Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > >> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > >>> I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe > >>> (communication with t

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kasper Sandberg wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. That's why splittin

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Sunday 18 March 2007, schreef Radoslaw Szkodzinski: > On 3/18/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hm. Sounds rather a lot like the... > > X sucks, fix X and RSDL will rock your world. RSDL is perfect. > > ...that I've been getting. > > Blah. Nothing's perfect. Especially not comp

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
On 3/18/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hm. Sounds rather a lot like the... X sucks, fix X and RSDL will rock your world. RSDL is perfect. ...that I've been getting. Blah. Nothing's perfect. Especially not computer programs. Still, it's not a smart decision on KDE's part. It wi

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Avuton Olrich
On 3/18/07, Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: not really, only X sucks. KDE works atleast as good with rsdl as vanilla. i dont know how originally said kde works worse, wasnt it just someone that thought? Couldn't agree more, been using RSDL+KDE for a week now, and as far as I'm concer

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > > > I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe > > (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. > > That's why splitting IO from a

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 13:50 +0530, jimmy bahuleyan wrote: > maybe if it is possible to classify program behaviors that cause RSDL to > do bad (relatively) or the mainline scheduler to jitter, we could try > modifying the existing heuristics to get a better default scheduler. > > of course, it wou

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > >> I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe >> (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. >> That's why splitting IO from an app isn't exactly smart. It should a

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > > > I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe > > (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. > > That's why splitting IO from a

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe > (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. > That's why splitting IO from an app isn't exactly smart. It should at > least be ran in an anothe

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
On 3/18/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 07:47 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > So neither does a good job with this load. > that sorely depends on what you mean by good job. > > It seems like what you call a good job is preserving the speed of the > gui(X + a

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 19:23 +0100, Kacper Wysocki wrote: > And for Mark and others who are as confused as I was, this is the > thread that Mike meant to reference: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/503455/focus=6614 Nope, with all the back and forth (and noise), I lost track of which t

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Kacper Wysocki
On 3/17/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 13:03 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 17 March 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: > [...] > >Xorg is using 50% cpu because I'm asking it to. > > What advantage is that giving you? It's a test scenario. Read the thread

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 07:54 -0700, Mark Glines wrote: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:33:41 +0100 > Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ P > > > > COMMAND 6599 root 26 0 174m 30m 8028 R 51 3.1 > > > > 7:08.70 0 Xorg > > >

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mark Glines
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:33:41 +0100 Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ P > > > COMMAND 6599 root 26 0 174m 30m 8028 R 51 3.1 > > > 7:08.70 0 Xorg > > > > This is a snippet from a hacked up by me version of RSDL.30

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mark Glines
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:46:27 +0100 Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 23:44 -0800, David Lang wrote: > > > why isn't niceing X to -10 an acceptable option? > > Xorg's priority is only part of the problem. Every client that needs > a substantial quantity of cpu whi

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 07:09 -0700, Mark Glines wrote: > I don't suppose you can be a bit more specific, and define how much CPU > constitutes a "substantial quantity"? It looks to me like X already got > about half of a CPU. > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ P COM

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Saturday 17 March 2007 07:07, jos poortvliet wrote: > Op Saturday 17 March 2007, schreef Ingo Molnar: > > so it is not at all clear to me that RSDL is indeed an improvement, if > > it does not have comparable auto-nice properties. > > Wasn't the point of RSDL to get rid of the auto-nice, becaus

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread michael chang
On 3/17/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 20:48 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > The most frustrating part of a discussion of this nature on lkml is that > earlier information in a thread seems to be long forgotten after a few days > and all that is left is the one r

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Saturday 17 March 2007, schreef Ingo Molnar: > so it is not at all clear to me that RSDL is indeed an improvement, if > it does not have comparable auto-nice properties. Wasn't the point of RSDL to get rid of the auto-nice, because it caused starvation, unpredictable behaviour and other proble

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-16 Thread Dirk Schoebel
Freitag, 16. März 2007 wrote Mike Galbraith: > On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 08:13 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Saturday 17 March 2007 02:34, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 00:40 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > Here are full patches for rsdl 0.31 for various base kernels. A full >