From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MkFtz-00044E-Go for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:27:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43D4DE09E3; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:27:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f218.google.com (mail-ew0-f218.google.com [209.85.219.218]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070AEE09E3 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:27:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy18 with SMTP id 18so2044293ewy.14 for ; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:27:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Y7RHQGET1QFg1Y3KUWyWzNJL99AoyHB9Mw3+cihDc/A=; b=wPbkG6KxAl1iiEnezEBVkNjGvRTxeA6fpMqg/cT+SEVrl+lstoKsywRxzm5SoF5dPZ v6hOiNsiuNW10Vyhm1h786l7dNsHhaR+98rZF+h1v/39CTusRJixHaeRiz7+h1A5nh3c fsrlYp1CkLqKSqmZnOmFKXBxCvshEe0I+jNVg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Bt4Asyg2hfyrwGvfExB0/G64ZtN94Dt4Dtgd1g6YmuQGYZKg3w52HAkm0UX0E8sB/U hy6czbpk0i0oE6+elv1q1kVAoFl+kXnQEPXlykmoUH+4te1lHcQ/stH+4Y7X/k61IZEh ATz2Jy+wTW0I/2wbpdlfJ+/w7dazditoTsptI= Received: by 10.216.1.69 with SMTP id 47mr1173557wec.224.1252236433456; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:27:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f13sm8386428gvd.23.2009.09.06.04.27.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:27:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 13:27:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.30-zen4zen-r4; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <200909060410.01905.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909061327.11292.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 166edce6-39b6-41e1-a450-c11328d1fb06 X-Archives-Hash: ce11eae72f5420bef1cfb3c16f0189fb On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/06/2009 05:10 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 09/06/2009 03:50 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> and maybe you should decrapify your config a bit? Namespaces? Seccomp? > >>> Process accounting? no compat vdso? > >>> > >>> You really hate performance, do you? > >> > >> On another note: > >> > >> "Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc version > >> (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped VDSO mapping and to > >> exclusively use the randomized VDSO." > >> > >> And digging turned up that it saves about 6-10 instructions per syscall > >> but limits the flexibility. This may be a significant improvement for > >> intensive-IO processes. > >> > >> And about process accounting: > >> > >> "This is generally a good idea, so say Y." > > > > yeah, if you are in a bean counter environment. Nobody else needs it. > > > >> Well, I said Y. > >> > >> And on seccomp: > >> > >> "... If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here." > >> > >> Well, guess what? I'm not on "embedded". > > > > and seccomp is only used by a single project by Andrea Arcangeli. Nobody > > else uses it. He also was the submitter of that feature. > > I've used your .config. I only changed CPU from AMD to Intel Core 2, as > well as the SATA and network drivers. Same problems. > > So it's not a kernel configuration problem. > > And btw, no matter how I configure the kernel, Con's scheduler always > results in a smooth and fluid composited GUI. Bte, are you even using > OpenGL compositing or are you just talking random stuff? :P > I am using kde's opengl compositing. I use fglrx. And I use a patched xorg- server.