o(1) to the rescue

[Ed Tomlinson]

Try this with and without the o(1) scheduler (J0).

Create a dir full of 1 meg or so jpegs.  Fire up kde.  Try using the Tools/Create image gallery.  
With the standard scheduler linux is unusable - it stalls for most of the processing time for 
each image.   With o(1) its just a little jerky - still usable though (a gallery is building as I 
type this).  

Xmms playing to a arts server running with real time priority experienced no dropouts during 
the process.

This is on 2.4.17 no preempt or low latency patches applied.

Real improvement - nice work,

Ed Tomlinson