Scheduling service which optimizes Linux’s CPU scheduler and automatically assigns process priorities for improved desktop responsiveness.

  • @Yujiri@lemmy.ml
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    12 years ago

    This sounds like a bad idea to me. Having more stuff running just to figure out which of the running stuff to prioritize.

    • Amicese
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      22 years ago

      <details><summary>I hold a similar opinion towards this software and <a href=“https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode”><code>gamemode</code></a>.</summary> Application-level software externally managing process priorities is not a good idea; <b style=“color: green;”>games should be optimized independent of other software!</b></details>

      • @Yujiri@lemmy.ml
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        12 years ago

        Even if that comparison is exactly correct, wouldn’t it just mean that a userspace scheduler is redundant? You don’t want to have two pieces of software running at the same time with the same job.

        But I don’t think that comparison is correct. OS kernels aren’t an external tool for managing process priorities. They’re how you create processes in the first place, so of course the OS is the appropriate place to manage them.