Re: New scheduler in 2.4. series?

Kristian (kristian.peters@korseby.net)
Tue, 5 Feb 2002 19:38:56 +0100


Brandon Low <lostlogic@lostlogicx.com> wrote:
> Seeing the new scheduler in 2.4 would be nice! However, soon wouldn't be nice, because there are a lot of 3rd party kernel
> modules that try to make calls against the old scheduler that don't seem to work. My personal case in point is Bestcrypt
> ( www.jetico.sci.fi ). Just my thoughts on the matter.

If you're speaking of Ingo's O1-scheduler I won't vote for inclusion now. I still have some trouble with high priority nice levels (renice -20). For some seconds the system gets totally unresponsive for user requests while switching between those processes. The last one I've tried was J2.

*Kristian

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