Re: [ANNOUNCE] WOLK v2.3 for Kernel v2.6.4

On Monday 29 March 2004 02:50, KORN Andras wrote:

Hi Andrew,

> I actually had time to try this one out. :) It looks like it works very
> well.

cool :)


> I also played with the staircase scheduler and encountered an interesting
> problem: I ran a distributed.net client niced to 19; mpg321 started as root
> with no special scheduling options (I don't know if it calls
> sched_setscheduler if it runs as root, but can check); I had top running;
> then I started gpart on an oldish 40G IDE disk, and in top, I reniced gpart
> to -20. There was no observable change in its CPU consumption (which isn't
> surprising, because it is I/O bound). After a few seconds, I reniced gpart
> to 0. About this time the music stopped and didn't start again for at least
> 15 seconds. The box is a single-CPU Athlon XP 2000+ with 1G RAM.

hmm, this could be one of the Scheduler changes in -mm.

May I have your .config? :)

BTW: What's up with "/proc restrictions w/o the need of grsecurity" patch?

 Should I cook it up? ;)

ciao, Marc


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