Re: Testing the effects of the low latency patch
Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:23:08 -0800
J Sloan wrote:
>
> >>2.4.18-pre6+tux+nfs-fixes
> >>-------------
> >>...
> >>7.6 1
> >>7.8 1
> >>21.1 1
> >>
> >
> >This is the stock kernel. In twenty minutes you suffered
> >precisely *one* scheduling overrun which is perceptible
> >by a human. The rest are much shorter than your monitor's
> >refresh interval. Interesting, yes?
> >
> Yes, the stock kernel is much improved from
> say 6 months ago. I will take a look at the
> kernel that shipped with my distro just for
> giggles as well...
>
Was you histogram generated during a game session, or during
dbench? write()-intensive workloads are the main common
offender.
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