From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 16:01:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F6537B401 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:01:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F50B43F3F for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:01:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3301721076013; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:31:07 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Jeff Roberson , current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:31:06 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030402015226.E64602-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> In-Reply-To: <20030402015226.E64602-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304030931.06619.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -0.7 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Re: ULE nice behavior fixed. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 00:01:18 -0000 On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:24, Jeff Roberson wrote: > It probably still needs some tweaking but it seems to be MUCH better now. > New algorithm entirely. > > nice +20 processes will not run if anything else wants to. > > idleprio is still not working correctly. bde reports that this causes a > 3% perf degradation for buildworld. Isn't nice +20 == idle prio then? My understanding was that idle prio didn't run unless nothing else wanted the CPU which is what you describe nice +20 as doing :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5