[Coco] Is there a good, runs on a coco but from a terminal like /t2 editor?

Steven Hirsch snhirsch at gmail.com
Sat Nov 20 08:46:42 EST 2010


On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, gene heskett wrote:

> On Saturday, November 20, 2010 02:02:57 am Roger Merchberger did opine:
>>
>> Does that mean that you were asleep when you wrote this?
>>
> Probably.  What I am doing is testing, maybe as a crew of 2 or 3, some
> patches to the scheduler in linux that seem to give me the snappiness I
> expect even when the load on the machine from an intensive process, like
> amanda doing a 10Gb compression with gzip --best such as is going on right
> now.  In fact, I am not seeing the lag I have come to expect when the load
> average is 1.59, it feels much the same as it did when the load average was
> 0.04 2 hours ago.   Aka one heck of an improvement in the desktop's feel.
> So this patchset is a keeper IMNSHO.  2 patches, applied to a virgin 2.6.36
> kernel.

I completely agree!  Didn't want to bother with a new kernel, but there 
were a couple of rc.local + login script hacks that do the same thing 
(change algorithm for prioritizing process groups).  Wow.  The difference 
isn't even subtle, is it?

A keeper for sure.

Steve


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