Re: o(1) to the rescue

[Helge Hafting]

Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> 
> Try this with and without the o(1) scheduler (J0).
> 
> Create a dir full of 1 meg or so jpegs.  Fire up kde.  Try using the
> Tools/Create image gallery.
> With the standard scheduler linux is unusable - it stalls for most of the
> processing time for
> each image.   With o(1) its just a little jerky - still usable though (a
> gallery is building as I
> type this).

I guess this thing starts a thread per image?  That would
give a lot of _running_ processes, which is exactly what
the O(1) scheduler improves.

Helge Hafting