From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: HOWTO: lightning fast Emacs on Linux multicore Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:25:13 +0200 Message-ID: <83k32udhau.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871tpdl29g.fsf@debian.uxu> <20141116123211220580626@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416169561 13067 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2014 20:26:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:26:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 16 21:25:53 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq6OO-00058J-Ck for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 21:25:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45031 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq6ON-00053P-WD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:25:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58752) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq6O7-00050K-Az for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:25:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq6O1-0002Qv-Hq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:25:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:45011) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq6O1-0002Qi-56 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:25:29 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF500100F7OPX00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:25:27 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF5001SZFEDL820@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:25:27 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20141116123211220580626@bob.proulx.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100967 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:49:52 -0700 > From: Bob Proulx > > > Now, Emacs has a core to itself and should run much > > faster, at least for normal usage. > > I am happy if you are happy with the above. However I recommend not > doing this. Seconded. > I think it is better to allow the kernel to optimize process > scheduling itself. As I said, if you are happy then I am happy for > you. But I wouldn't recommend this to others since it will generally > slow down the system. In general, one should keep out of the scheduler's way, unless they have a VERY good reason. Such reasons can only pop up when you need to run some software with hard real-time deadlines (and even then there are better ways). Any other reason is by definition to good enough.