Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 22:55:45 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: jonny@coppe.ufrj.br, tlambert@primenet.com, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Process scheduling: nice does not work ??? Message-ID: <199712120355.WAA01862@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199712120252.TAA07810@usr02.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Dec 12, 97 02:52:18 am"
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Terry Lambert said: > > It's for setting your priority to less than the default of 0 so that you > don't bother interactive users with your compute intensive tasks (in > fact, there used to be code in the BSD scheduler to whomp your priority > way down when it determined that your process was non-interactive; I > have no idea when it went away, but it did). > That "whomp" code was explicitly removed. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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