Re: Bad interactive behaviour in 2.5.65-66 (sched.c)

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Mar 31 2003, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> At 07:06 AM 3/31/2003 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> >On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:14, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> On Sat, Mar 29 2003, Robert Love wrote:
> >> > On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 21:33, Con Kolivas wrote:
> >> > > Are you sure this should be called a bug? Basically X is an 
> >interactive
> >> > > process. If it now is "interactive for a priority -10 process" then 
> >it
> >> > > should be hogging the cpu time no? The priority -10 was a workaround
> >> > > for lack of interactivity estimation on the old scheduler.
> >> >
> >> > Well, I do not necessarily think that renicing X is the problem.  Just
> >> > an idea.
> >>
> >> I see the exact same behaviour here (systems appears fine, cpu intensive
> >> app running, attempting to start anything _new_ stalls for ages), and I
> >> definitely don't play X renice tricks.
> >>
> >> It basically made 2.5 unusable here, waiting minutes for an ls to even
> >> start displaying _anything_ is totally unacceptable.
> >
> >I guess I should have trusted my own benchmark that was showing this was 
> >worse
> >for system responsiveness.
> 
> I don't think it's really bad for system responsiveness.  I think the 

What drugs are you on? 2.5.65/66 is the worst interactive kernel I've
ever used, it would be _embarassing_ to release a 2.6-test with such a
rudimentary flaw in it. IOW, a big show stopper.

> problem is just that the sample is too small.  The proof is that simply 
> doing sleep_time %= HZ cures most of my woes.  WRT contest and it's 

Irk, that sounds like a really ugly bandaid.

I'm wondering why the scheduler guys aren't all over this problem,
getting it fixed.

-- 
Jens Axboe