From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 8 23:45:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA29109 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 23:45:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA29050 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 23:45:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA03926; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 23:45:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 23:45:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Hrvoje Husic cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in the process-scheduler & niceness of 20? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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