On Thursday 19 December 2002 05:41 pm, Robert Love wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 18:18, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > That is too often not the case.
>
> I knew you would say that!
>
> > I can get the desktop machine working about as comfortably
> > as 2.4.19 with:
> >
> > # echo 10 > max_timeslice
> > # echo 0 > prio_bonus_ratio
> >
> > ie: disabling all the fancy new scheduler features :(
> >
> > Dropping max_timeslice fixes the enormous stalls which happen
> > when an interactive process gets incorrectly identified as a
> > cpu hog. (OK, that's expected)
My experiences to add to the pot...I started by booting 2.5.52-mm2 and
launching KDE3. I have a dual AMD MP2000+, 1GB RAM, with most of the
data used below on striped/RAID0 ATA/133 drives. Taking Andrew's
advice, I created a continuous load with:
while [ 1 ]; do ( make -j4 clean; make -j4 bzImage ); done
...in a kernel tree, then sat down for a leisurely email and web
cruising session. After about fifteen minutes, it became apparent I
wasn't suffering any interactive slowdown. So I increased the load:
while [ 1 ]; do ( make -j8 clean; make -j8 bzImage ); done
while [ 1 ]; do ( cp dump1 dump2; rm dump2; sync ); done
...where file "dump1" is 100MB. Now we're seeing some impact :)
To combat this I tried:
echo 3000 > starvation_limit
echo 4 > interactive_delta
echo 200 max_timeslice
echo 20 min_timeslice
This works pretty well. The "spinning envelope" on the email monitor
of gkrellm actually corresponds quite nicely with the actual feel of
my system, so after awhile, I just sat back and observed it. Both the
tactile response and the gkrellm obervations show this: it's common
to experience maybe a .1--.3 second lag every 2 or 3 seconds with
this load, with maybe the odd .5 second lag occurring once or twice a
minute. Watching the compile job in the background scroll by, I
noticed that there are times when it comes to a dead stop. The next
step, I guess, needs to be a ConTest with the final settings...
child_penalty: 95
exit_weight: 3
interactive_delta: 4
max_sleep_avg: 2000
max_timeslice: 300
min_timeslice: 10
parent_penalty: 100
prio_bonus_ratio: 25
starvation_limit: 3000
---scott
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