Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 23:45:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Hrvoje Husic <H.Husic@Uni-Koeln.DE> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in the process-scheduler & niceness of 20? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980308234450.3844K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Version.32.19980306163039.00f3c9d0@mail.rrz.uni-koeln.de>
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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Hrvoje Husic wrote: > At 22:06 05.03.98 -0800, Doug White wrote: > > >Not entirely. If you want to set idle priority, run `idprio -203'. With > >niceness 20, the application will not be scheduled often, but will be > >scheduled. In idle priority, it will only be scheduled if there are no > >ready processes to schedule, eg the system is idle. > > Well, it still should not get the same CPU-cycles a gzip without niceness > gets. The niceness does not affect the scheduling at all. Make sure the process is set to idle priority then. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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