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Date:      Mon, 26 May 2003 16:48:07 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: linux_threads nice bug ? nice / nohup confusion
Message-ID:  <3ED2A7B7.C3D1553E@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030526175945.R561@cvs.imp.ch>

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Martin Blapp wrote:
> After closly looking at some of our mysql performance issues,
> I've found out that all mysqld threads (I'm using linuxthreads)
> are running at +14 niceness. This is of course a catastropy.
> 
> A renice of the main thread does not help. If I do that, I see
> that all new created threads have again niceness +14. Starting
> without nohup makes +11 as niceness.
> 
> I guess there is somewhere a severe bug here.

Depends; "niceness" is relative to the scheduler you are using.
Try using the other scheduler, and this should become pretty
obvious to you.

-- Terry



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