On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. That does not mean that the HZ setting has no effect ;) The kernel is not fully tickless yet, regardless we already have CONFIG_HZ=1000 and CONFIG_HZ_1000=y set ;) -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
