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