Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-21 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:47 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > >> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > >> > >>> I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe > >>>

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-21 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:47 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Kasper Sandberg wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe (communication with the

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-20 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Tuesday 20 March 2007, schreef Linus Torvalds: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > > >> Stock scheduler wins easily, no contest. > > > > > > > > What happens when you renice X ? > > > > > > Dunno -- not necessary with the stock scheduler. > > > > Could you try something like renice

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-20 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Tuesday 20 March 2007, schreef Bill Davidsen: > Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > >> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > >>> I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe > >>> (communication with

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-20 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Tuesday 20 March 2007, schreef Bill Davidsen: Kasper Sandberg wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe (communication with the app

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-20 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Tuesday 20 March 2007, schreef Linus Torvalds: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Xavier Bestel wrote: Stock scheduler wins easily, no contest. What happens when you renice X ? Dunno -- not necessary with the stock scheduler. Could you try something like renice -10 $(pidof Xorg) ?

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kasper Sandberg wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. That's why

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kasper Sandberg wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. That's why

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Sunday 18 March 2007, schreef Radoslaw Szkodzinski: > On 3/18/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hm. Sounds rather a lot like the... > > X sucks, fix X and RSDL will rock your world. RSDL is perfect. > > ...that I've been getting. > > Blah. Nothing's perfect. Especially not

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
On 3/18/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hm. Sounds rather a lot like the... X sucks, fix X and RSDL will rock your world. RSDL is perfect. ...that I've been getting. Blah. Nothing's perfect. Especially not computer programs. Still, it's not a smart decision on KDE's part. It

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Avuton Olrich
On 3/18/07, Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: not really, only X sucks. KDE works atleast as good with rsdl as vanilla. i dont know how originally said kde works worse, wasnt it just someone that thought? Couldn't agree more, been using RSDL+KDE for a week now, and as far as I'm

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > > > I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe > > (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. > > That's why splitting IO from

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 13:50 +0530, jimmy bahuleyan wrote: > maybe if it is possible to classify program behaviors that cause RSDL to > do bad (relatively) or the mainline scheduler to jitter, we could try > modifying the existing heuristics to get a better default scheduler. > > of course, it

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > >> I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe >> (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. >> That's why splitting IO from an app isn't exactly smart. It should

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > > > I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe > > (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. > > That's why splitting IO from

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: > I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe > (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. > That's why splitting IO from an app isn't exactly smart. It should at > least be ran in an

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
On 3/18/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 07:47 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > So neither does a good job with this load. > that sorely depends on what you mean by good job. > > It seems like what you call a good job is preserving the speed of the > gui(X +

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
On 3/18/07, Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 07:47 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: So neither does a good job with this load. that sorely depends on what you mean by good job. It seems like what you call a good job is preserving the speed of the gui(X + apps

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. That's why splitting IO from an app isn't exactly smart. It should at least be ran in an another

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. That's why splitting IO from an app

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. That's why splitting IO from an app isn't exactly smart. It should at

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 13:50 +0530, jimmy bahuleyan wrote: maybe if it is possible to classify program behaviors that cause RSDL to do bad (relatively) or the mainline scheduler to jitter, we could try modifying the existing heuristics to get a better default scheduler. of course, it

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:38 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 08:22 +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote: I'd recon KDE regresses because of kioslaves waiting on a pipe (communication with the app they're doing IO for) and then expiring. That's why splitting IO from an app

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Avuton Olrich
On 3/18/07, Kasper Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not really, only X sucks. KDE works atleast as good with rsdl as vanilla. i dont know how originally said kde works worse, wasnt it just someone that thought? Couldn't agree more, been using RSDL+KDE for a week now, and as far as I'm

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread Radoslaw Szkodzinski
On 3/18/07, Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm. Sounds rather a lot like the... X sucks, fix X and RSDL will rock your world. RSDL is perfect. ...that I've been getting. Blah. Nothing's perfect. Especially not computer programs. Still, it's not a smart decision on KDE's part. It

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-18 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Sunday 18 March 2007, schreef Radoslaw Szkodzinski: On 3/18/07, Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm. Sounds rather a lot like the... X sucks, fix X and RSDL will rock your world. RSDL is perfect. ...that I've been getting. Blah. Nothing's perfect. Especially not computer

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 19:23 +0100, Kacper Wysocki wrote: > And for Mark and others who are as confused as I was, this is the > thread that Mike meant to reference: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/503455/focus=6614 Nope, with all the back and forth (and noise), I lost track of which

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Kacper Wysocki
On 3/17/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 13:03 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 17 March 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: > [...] > >Xorg is using 50% cpu because I'm asking it to. > > What advantage is that giving you? It's a test scenario. Read the

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 07:54 -0700, Mark Glines wrote: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:33:41 +0100 > Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ P > > > > COMMAND 6599 root 26 0 174m 30m 8028 R 51 3.1 > > > > 7:08.70 0 Xorg > >

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mark Glines
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:33:41 +0100 Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ P > > > COMMAND 6599 root 26 0 174m 30m 8028 R 51 3.1 > > > 7:08.70 0 Xorg > > > > This is a snippet from a hacked up by me version of

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mark Glines
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:46:27 +0100 Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 23:44 -0800, David Lang wrote: > > > why isn't niceing X to -10 an acceptable option? > > Xorg's priority is only part of the problem. Every client that needs > a substantial quantity of cpu

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 07:09 -0700, Mark Glines wrote: > I don't suppose you can be a bit more specific, and define how much CPU > constitutes a "substantial quantity"? It looks to me like X already got > about half of a CPU. > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ P

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Saturday 17 March 2007 07:07, jos poortvliet wrote: > Op Saturday 17 March 2007, schreef Ingo Molnar: > > so it is not at all clear to me that RSDL is indeed an improvement, if > > it does not have comparable auto-nice properties. > > Wasn't the point of RSDL to get rid of the auto-nice,

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread michael chang
On 3/17/07, Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 20:48 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > The most frustrating part of a discussion of this nature on lkml is that > earlier information in a thread seems to be long forgotten after a few days > and all that is left is the one

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Saturday 17 March 2007, schreef Ingo Molnar: > so it is not at all clear to me that RSDL is indeed an improvement, if > it does not have comparable auto-nice properties. Wasn't the point of RSDL to get rid of the auto-nice, because it caused starvation, unpredictable behaviour and other

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Saturday 17 March 2007, schreef Ingo Molnar: so it is not at all clear to me that RSDL is indeed an improvement, if it does not have comparable auto-nice properties. Wasn't the point of RSDL to get rid of the auto-nice, because it caused starvation, unpredictable behaviour and other

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread michael chang
On 3/17/07, Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 20:48 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: The most frustrating part of a discussion of this nature on lkml is that earlier information in a thread seems to be long forgotten after a few days and all that is left is the one

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Saturday 17 March 2007 07:07, jos poortvliet wrote: Op Saturday 17 March 2007, schreef Ingo Molnar: so it is not at all clear to me that RSDL is indeed an improvement, if it does not have comparable auto-nice properties. Wasn't the point of RSDL to get rid of the auto-nice, because it

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 07:09 -0700, Mark Glines wrote: I don't suppose you can be a bit more specific, and define how much CPU constitutes a substantial quantity? It looks to me like X already got about half of a CPU. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ P COMMAND

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mark Glines
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:46:27 +0100 Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 23:44 -0800, David Lang wrote: why isn't niceing X to -10 an acceptable option? Xorg's priority is only part of the problem. Every client that needs a substantial quantity of cpu while a hog

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mark Glines
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:33:41 +0100 Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ P COMMAND 6599 root 26 0 174m 30m 8028 R 51 3.1 7:08.70 0 Xorg This is a snippet from a hacked up by me version of RSDL.30, not stock.

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 07:54 -0700, Mark Glines wrote: On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:33:41 +0100 Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ P COMMAND 6599 root 26 0 174m 30m 8028 R 51 3.1 7:08.70 0 Xorg This is a

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Kacper Wysocki
On 3/17/07, Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 13:03 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 17 March 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: [...] Xorg is using 50% cpu because I'm asking it to. What advantage is that giving you? It's a test scenario. Read the thread

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 19:23 +0100, Kacper Wysocki wrote: And for Mark and others who are as confused as I was, this is the thread that Mike meant to reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/503455/focus=6614 Nope, with all the back and forth (and noise), I lost track of which

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-16 Thread Dirk Schoebel
Freitag, 16. März 2007 wrote Mike Galbraith: > On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 08:13 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Saturday 17 March 2007 02:34, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 00:40 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > > Here are full patches for rsdl 0.31 for various base kernels. A full >

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-16 Thread Dirk Schoebel
Freitag, 16. März 2007 wrote Mike Galbraith: On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 08:13 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On Saturday 17 March 2007 02:34, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 00:40 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: Here are full patches for rsdl 0.31 for various base kernels. A full