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Are we really chasing the right issue?

Are we really chasing the right issue?

Posted Feb 27, 2012 15:51 UTC (Mon) by fuhchee (subscriber, #40059)
In reply to: Are we really chasing the right issue? by mpr22
Parent article: Short sleeps suffering from slack

"If it is, you'll just have to document that the user needs to turn down the timer slack setting on their system."

So a single systemwide knob has to be fixed by the user's sysadmin? That doesn't seem appropriate, just to retain previous capability.


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Are we really chasing the right issue?

Posted Feb 27, 2012 19:05 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

it's not a "single systemwide knob", it's a per-cgroup knob

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