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On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: |
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> > Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for |
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> > X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least |
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> > when I used Debian). |
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> Nice factor for X makes graphical software run fater? I don't thinl |
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> so. Not at all. |
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Linus agrees with you. Linus is usually right. |
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There was a long drawn out thread on lkml a while back about this in |
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regard to process schedulers and this dodge/hack kept coming up. Linus' |
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point was that it does very little, upsets the kernel's view of how to |
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schedule jobs and he had numbers to back it up. Most interesting was |
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his assertion that niceness usually has very little effect on Linux |
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anyway - most differences noted are placebo effects - and niceness |
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comes from the days 30 years ago when Unix kernels were not smart about |
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scheduling. And niceness was only ever a kernel hint anyway. |
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I haven't seen any patches that might affect this since so I reckon it |
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still produces precious little effect. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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