Posted Sep 1, 2009 18:03 UTC (Tue) by bjacob (subscriber, #58566)
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Don't remember about that specifically, but I agree that at the very least, Con Kolivas' work hasn't gotten the attention it deserved at the time. I distinctly remember running linux 2.6.4-ck1 and 2.6.7-ck4 and these were the most responsive desktop settings I've ever had. I could start a heavy compilation job, and concurrently a heavy disk I/O job, and still have perfect desktop responsiveness. I wish that the kernel that's shipped in my opensuse 11.2 were able to do the same, but it's not.