Subject: Re: Turning off autonice by default
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/27/2004 09:26:02
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On Sep 26, 2004, at 4:25 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> I think it makes no sense in todays configurations and workloads. It 
> can
> be turned on via sysctl, but it should not be on by default.

I agree, disable it.  Really, it should never have been added in the 
first place.  Judging by some scheduler fixes that went in after 
autonicetime was added, I can only assume that it was a misguided hack 
to mask over some of those scheduler bugs.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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