From owner-freebsd-questions  Wed Apr  5  4:49:58 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.1.175])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id AB9C737BC35; Wed,  5 Apr 2000 04:49:51 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za)
Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za)
	by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1)
	id 12coJU-0000ra-00; Wed, 05 Apr 2000 13:49:36 +0200
From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.psu.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: priorities 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 21:32:46 -0400."
             <Pine.GSO.4.21.0004042059360.20854-100000@volk.astro.psu.edu> 
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 13:49:36 +0200
Message-ID: <3321.954935376@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG



On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 21:32:46 -0400, Alexey Koptsevich wrote:

> I noticed strange thing: when several computational tasks run, real
> priority may not depend on nice value.

Priority is a confusing name.  A high priority indicates a CPU-bound
process.  What you're seeing is that all of these processes are
CPU-bound hogs -- they don't often give up their time slice before it's
over. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message