Re: [patch] SCHED_SOFTRR linux scheduler policy ...

Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org)
Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:07:05 -0700 (PDT)


On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Miguel Freitas wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 13:30, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Since i upgraded my computer recently it's difficult to compare with the
> experiments i made before. But basically no, i haven't tried to make
> xine smooth under high load. my primary complain was that even a small
> background load caused by KSysGuard (KDE system monitor) could make it
> drop frames from time to time. with nice values like -2 the problem was
> completely fixed.

IMMIC (If My Math Is Correct :) you would need a nice -11 to be completely
sure that your task will not be preempted by an iteractive SCHED_OTHER
(one can go to +5 and the other might go to -5) with the current settings.

- Davide

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