Re: o(1) to the rescue
Helge Hafting (helgehaf@aitel.hist.no)
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:21:10 +0100
Ed Tomlinson wrote:
>
> 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).
I guess this thing starts a thread per image? That would
give a lot of _running_ processes, which is exactly what
the O(1) scheduler improves.
Helge Hafting
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