On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 10:31 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:13, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > I agree that tweaking the scheduler is probably pointless, as long as X > > is burning gazillions of CPU cycles redrawing things that don't need to > > be redrawn. > > > > Then again even the OSX scheduler has hooks for the GUI. Presumably > > they concluded that the desktop responsiveness problem could not be > > adequately solved within the framework of a general purpose UNIX > > scheduler. > > It's an X problem and it's being fixed. Get over it, we're not tuning the > scheduler for a broken app.
I wasn't saying it would be a smart thing to do, the OSX thing is interesting that's all. I think we're in violent agreement about the X problem, do you have a link to any specific work on this (off list)? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
