Re: Missing changelog to Ingo's J5 scheduler?

[Ingo Molnar]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Rene Rebe wrote:

> Ok. After some massive rebooting:
>
> -J2 is worser. starting XFree(+gnome) when three gcc's are running
> take long (> half a minute?). With -J5 X start nearly normal (mostly
> file access time anyway?) Dragging windows arround is nearly equal.
> Although with -J2 i sometimes noticed a really big latency when
> starting vim or man ...

thanks, so -J5 is an improvement on all fronts - good.

> Oh. btw. The -J5 was tested with 2.4.18-pre7; the rest was with
> vanilla-2.4.17 - I hope this doesn't make a performance difference for
> this tests ...

i dont think there is a difference, as long as you have enough RAM and
dont swap usually.

	Ingo