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I use the non-preemptive (server) scheduler on my linux desktop machines with fvwm as favorite long-time WM. At work: RHEL with dwm, which I'm starting to love,
by pgtan 10y ago
I use the non-preemptive (server) scheduler on my linux desktop machines with fvwm as favorite long-time WM. At work: RHEL with dwm, which I'm starting to love, also forced to use Windos 7. Boy, this MS sh*t drives me mad. The focus stealing alone is enough to go berserk. The slowness, the deadkeys, the placement of the windows, the lack of virtual desktops...
- tomjen3 10y agoFor the rest of us who were confused: only the kernel part is non-preemptive. A user program can still be interrupted at any time. That said, how much better performance are you seeing.
- pgtan 10y agowell, running heavy multiprocess pipes (netpbm, imagemagick, tesseract, TeX) in the background does not slow down the graphic apps, mainly emacs, firefox, gimp, feh, etc. Even watching a video with mplayer is mostly without any freezing. Distro is Gentoo as cleaned and lean as possibe. And this on 10 years old Opteron PCs.