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Date:      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 
Message-ID:  <3321.954935376@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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> 

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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.


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