2.6.7-ck1

2.6.7-ck1 is very useable on my Celeron 500 (medochino) system (using cfq I/O sched). It seems more responsive than the recent stock kernels, and staircase 7.0/7.1 is a big improvement over 6.3, which stalled in annoying places. In fact, the only problem I have with the patchset is that when I run foobar2000 under wine the sound skips when I load a new web page in epiphany. If I make wine an ISO task with schedtool then it no longer skips, but it also hangs the system for a few seconds while browsing the foobar preferences dialogue. I guess I'll have to keep a launcher without schedtool ready for when I need to mess with the prefs for now.
Anyway, great work - makes this old system seem that little bit snappier.

-Ash

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AshMilsted wrote:

| 2.6.7-ck1 is very useable on my Celeron 500 (medochino) system
| (using cfq I/O sched). It seems more responsive than the recent
| stock kernels, and staircase 7.0/7.1 is a big improvement over
| 6.3, which stalled in annoying places. In fact, the only problem
| I have with the patchset is that when I run foobar2000 under
| wine the sound skips when I load a new web page in epiphany. If
| I make wine an ISO task with schedtool then it no longer skips,
| but it also hangs the system for a few seconds while browsing
| the foobar preferences dialogue. I guess I'll have to keep a
| launcher without schedtool ready for when I need to mess with
| the prefs for now.
| Anyway, great work - makes this old system seem that little bit
| snappier.

Great!

Running wine as an ISO task will give it short periods of high priority over and above your web browser - that's the point since it is soft real time scheduling.

You may want to try disabling the interactive setting as well echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/interactive

as some very resource hungry applications (eg games and perhaps wine) seem better behaved in that setting too.

Thanks for feedback.
Con
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