[ale] faster linux

[thehead at patshead.com (Pat Regan)]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:31:40 -0600
Preston Boyington <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't tested it yet, but will very soon.  :)
> 

It works as advertised but it isn't likely to make any difference for
99% of users.

I'm running the shell script version.  With the tweaks I can run a
'make -j64' and 1080p high profile video plays without a stutter on my
quad core laptop.

I don't know why I would ever run so many concurrent compile jobs,
though.  Without the cgroups tweaks I can still play the same 1080p
video with a 'make -j12' (which is about the sweet spot for a kernel
compile on my laptop).

It is a fine idea but it needs more brains.  It might be useful to have
all of your long running non-interactive background tasks automatically
dumped into a single cgroup bucket.

Pat