Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 22:03:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Thomas Schuerger <schuerge@wjpserver.CS.Uni-SB.DE> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/12381: Bad scheduling in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199906252003.WAA02199@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de> In-Reply-To: <13707.930336366@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jun 25, 1999 08:46:06 pm"
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> > I think the nice-level only has a very minor effect in FreeBSD, which > > is not what I expect in a Unix environment. What it means is that there is > > no possibility to really run processes "in the background", e.g. sort of > > in the "spare time" of the CPU (these processes still should become active every > > now and then when more important processes are running, completely cutting them > > off would not be what I'd want). Something like an exponential drop off with > > increasing nice-levels would be fine, for example. > > In fact there is a way to do this, look at the rtprio man page. This really works great. Thanks a lot for the hint. Perhaps this requires more notice in the future, for example in the "nice" and "renice" manpages! Ciao, Thomas. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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