On Friday 01 October 2004 05:33 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Well, that's great. But my hypothesis was that the "desktop" kernel option would slow a machine down by increasing the kernel scheduler overhead.
But if using "desktop" is better for you than than not using it, then great. It's not suprising that things are more responsive, but it doesn't make sense to me that things like boot-up or program launching time would improve.
No, I don't think it makes it boot faster. And the desktop speedups only kick in after X is up, and only for those tasks launched from X. According to Linus's email threads (still on Kernel Trap: http://www.kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=603 ) the ht patch really does not complicate scheduling much, and does add some, but not a lot of of overhead. X is not getting more attention, just more frequent attention. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen