Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 16:32:12 +0100 From: Hrvoje Husic <H.Husic@Uni-Koeln.DE> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in the process-scheduler & niceness of 20? Message-ID: <Version.32.19980306163039.00f3c9d0@mail.rrz.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305220304.24994M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> References: <Version.32.19980304144320.00f45e10@mail.rrz.uni-koeln.de>
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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. >My rc564 (my rc5des didn't die like everyone else's) is chugging along >fine. Mine is chugging fine as well, but it should not do so with other processes requiering CPU-time. -- Hrvoje Husic <H.Husic@Uni-Koeln.DE> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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