On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Carlos R. Mafra wrote:

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> So I would like to ask if swap letting X (and everything else in my 
> experience) out of the cpu for extended periods is considered normal 
> behaviour, in the sense that nobody is trying to "fix" it (due to it 
> being considered impossible to fix)...? Sorry for being off-topic, but I 
> run a minimal Window Maker desktop in a P4 3.0 GHz with 512 MB of RAM 
> (around 140 MB being used as per 'free'), and trying to load a 380 MB 
> text file in xjed editor makes my whole desktop quite unfair... it takes 
> tens of seconds to switch desktop, type things in the terminal etc. When 
> xjed finishes loading the text file, everything comes back to "fair" 
> again.

I propose you start a new thread about this with proper Subject, and CC 
the scheduler maintainers.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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