On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 10:33 -0700, stan wrote: > I eliminate all unnecessary functionality, and tune for my hardware. I > think the main things that fixed the problem were eliminating the lower > 128K of memory from user space (what a kludge!), making the desktop > preemptable, and raising the tick frequency to 1000. I eliminate a ... > On the other hand it could be like that old joke about the tigers. > > A passerby in a city sees a man sprinkling flour in intricate patterns > around his house. He asks him what he is doing. The flour sprinkler > says, "I'm putting in place tiger repellant." The passerby says, > "There are no tigers around here!" The flour sprinkler says, > "Effective, isn't it." Exactly. For a start, Fedora's default kernel config is tickless (NOHZ is enabled) by default. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list