Well, this settles it for me

Posted Sep 7, 2009 9:13 UTC (Mon) by endecotp (guest, #36428)
In reply to: Well, this settles it for me by andreashappe
Parent article: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements

> I do not believe that Linux should target < 1000 Euro machines

Maybe you're living on a different planet. The only time I've ever spent anything like that much was my first PC back in 1994 - a 66MHz 486.

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Well, this settles it for me

Posted Sep 7, 2009 12:46 UTC (Mon) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link]

Maybe you're living on a different planet. The only time I've ever spent anything like that much was my first PC back in 1994 - a 66MHz 486.

Indeed. Although there can be good reasons for paying 1000 (or £1000) for a system, it's been a long time since anyone really had to. It reminds me of the "Killer PCs for £1500" idiocy the UK computing press used to run on the cover of their magazines every month back in the early-to-mid 1990s, and even at that time such dull retail summaries served the advertisers far more than they did the actual readership.

Well, this settles it for me

Posted Sep 7, 2009 16:07 UTC (Mon) by andreashappe (subscriber, #4810) [Link]

> Maybe you're living on a different planet.

Could be, I'm using it for coding and running statistics stuff mostly (while doing 'normal' video/music listening).

But that thing did cost me around 1000 euro four months ago and would be under that by now.. and will be fairly standard *before* a new scheduler would be added to mainline.

People that experiencing performance or latency problems on existing hardware might be better of if they would just *report* their problems to the lkml. Ingo is quite responsive to feedback.

(embedded usage differs.. but that is something that the market (tm) should be perfectly able to decide).