Solving starvation problems in the scheduler

Posted Mar 24, 2006 0:34 UTC (Fri) by xorbe (guest, #3165)
Parent article: Solving starvation problems in the scheduler

I apologize, but the whole Linux scheduler strikes me as so messed up. I have a 2.5GHz A64 w/2GB DDR500 that posts 7.8GB/s bandwidth in RMMA benchmark, with a recent hdd running 64-bit Linux -- and silly things like "ls" in the Mandriva cooker folder or copying to a USB2 drive bring the machine to a halt otherwise. My WinXP partition provides better interactivity, and it's starting to burn. I don't know what the problem is in the 2.6 series, but I wish it would get resolved soon.

Solving starvation problems in the scheduler

Posted Mar 24, 2006 21:09 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

Could it be possible that you are running into a distribution specific issue rather than a kernel problem?

Solving starvation problems in the scheduler

Posted Apr 20, 2006 21:02 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

well, there simply ARE problems with the kernel scheduler... tough he
might have more problems with the I/O scheduler (he should try CFQ...), as
i said some time ago (below here), the cpu scheduler needs some work, too.
and imho id needs removal... and replacement.