> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 12:18:29PM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > I don't consider compiling the kernel an interactive process as it's
> > done almost automatically without any user intervention. XMMS is not a
> > complete interactive application as it spends most of the time decoding
> > and playing sound.
> >
> A kernel compile isn't interactive - sure. It may get some boosts
> anyway for io waiting. This quite correctly puts it above a
> pure cpu hog like a mandelbrot calculation.
Why? Not why does the scheduler do that, but why *should* a compile be in
any way more deserving that a Mandelbrot? It isn't obvious to me that
either are interacting with the user, and if they are it would be the
Mandelbrot doing realtime display.
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