ULatencyD Enters The Linux World

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 12 January 2011 at 02:07 PM EST. 33 Comments
LINUX KERNEL
Daniel Poelzleithner has announced to the Linux kernel world his new project named ulatencyd. The focus of ulatencyd is to provide a script-able daemon to dynamically adjust Linux scheduling parameters and other aspects of the Linux kernel.

In his announcement to the Linux kernel mailing list, "It is not ready for a release yet, but it works to a point I started to get satisfied. I'm able to run a make -j 40 on my dual core machine while looking a full hd movie without problems and the ui from kde still feels good :-)"

The ulatencyd project is currently hosted on GitHub. There is also this architecture diagram for those interested in the more technical details of this daemon to tweak the Linux scheduler and other items in real-time.
Related News
About The Author
Michael Larabel

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.

Popular News This Week