Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:09 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: > > I'm running 2.6.36-ck-r2 and mplayer is smooth as a baby's backside - KDE > > animations have no effect on that. > > 2.6.36-ck-r2 has BFS as scheduler. I thought your were not using BFS :

[gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/20/2010 10:55 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:25 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: About two months ago I did reboot into a gentoo kernel and things did feel a little different but not in a way I could put my fingers on. I put it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:25 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: > > About two months ago I did reboot into a gentoo kernel and things did > > feel a little different but not in a way I could put my fingers on. I > > put it down to running a huge compile in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 19.11.2010 16:36, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Friday 19 November 2010, Nikos > Chantziaras did opine thusly: > >> On 11/19/2010 04:37 AM, Adam Carter wrote: >>> 2.6.38 should contain a ~200 line patch that makes a huge difference to >>> desktop responsiven

[gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/19/2010 11:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:03 on Friday 19 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: Perhaps distros will pick up on this and offer other criteria, maybe something like a profile selectable at boot-time or maybe even runtime. What I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:03 on Friday 19 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: > > Perhaps distros will pick up on this and offer other criteria, maybe > > something like a profile selectable at boot-time or maybe even runtime. > > > > What I would like to see is flash goe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:28 on Friday 19 November 2010, Willie Wong did opine thusly: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 05:36:05PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Prevailing opinion on /. > > That is a strange sentence itself. To see Alan deferring to the higher > authority of the collective w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 05:36:05PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Prevailing opinion on /. That is a strange sentence itself. To see Alan deferring to the higher authority of the collective wisdom of /. is... well... surprising. W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@mat

[gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/19/2010 05:36 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Friday 19 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: On 11/19/2010 04:37 AM, Adam Carter wrote: 2.6.38 should contain a ~200 line patch that makes a huge difference to desktop responsiveness under loa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Friday 19 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: > On 11/19/2010 04:37 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > > 2.6.38 should contain a ~200 line patch that makes a huge difference to > > desktop responsiveness under load; > > "Tests done by Mike show the ma

[gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/19/2010 04:37 AM, Adam Carter wrote: 2.6.38 should contain a ~200 line patch that makes a huge difference to desktop responsiveness under load; "Tests done by Mike show the maximum latency dropping by over ten times and the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times" Ref: http://www.p