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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 11:50:59 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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Surprisingly enough, in most situations this actually improves performance! The reason is that processes that have been blocked get an opportunity to run as soon as possible doing a bit of work and then usually blocking quickly afterwards allowing the machine to return to its previous job.
-If you are looking for information on how to get KernelPremption
working under Linux kernels:
+If you are looking for information on how to get KernelPreemption
working under Linux kernels:
If you run a 2.6 kernel, then you just need to enable the preemptive kernel option.
If you run a 2.4 kernel, you'll need to patch it. Look at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel/v2.4/ to find a patch for your kernel. Note that if there isn't a patch for your kernel yet, you'll have to wait. Sorry.
