Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:14:51 -0400 From: Keith Stevenson <k.stevenson@louisville.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/12381: Bad scheduling in FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990625161451.G20792@homer.louisville.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990625161053.F20792@homer.louisville.edu>; from Keith Stevenson on Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 04:10:53PM -0400 References: <199906251830.LAA33688@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990625161053.F20792@homer.louisville.edu>
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On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 04:10:53PM -0400, Keith Stevenson wrote: > From the renice(8) man page: > > ... > fiats.) The super-user may alter the priority of any process and set the > priority to any value in the range PRIO_MIN (-20) to PRIO_MAX. Useful > priorities are: 20 (the affected processes will run only when nothing > else in the system wants to), 0 (the ``base'' scheduling priority), any- > thing negative (to make things go very fast). > > This sounds to me like a priority 20 process shouldn't get any CPU unless no > other processes want CPU cycles. Am I misreading something? (Man page quote > from 3.2-STABLE) Never mind. I just read PHK's note about rtprio. All is much clearer now. Perhaps an addition to the nice and renice man pages are in order? Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville k.stevenson@louisville.edu PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A8 95 A8 82 EA A2 29 CE 68 DE FC EE B6 A0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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