From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 15:40:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from urdvg001.cms.usa.net (urdvg001.cms.usa.net [165.212.11.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A50237B41A for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:40:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 22685 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2002 23:40:43 -0000 Received: from imapcorp.postoffice.net (HELO uadvg201.cms.usa.net) (165.212.11.132) by corprelay.cms.usa.net with SMTP; 1 Apr 2002 23:40:43 -0000 Received: USA.NET MXFirewall, messaging filters applied; Mon, 01 Apr 2002 23:38:40 GMT Received: from uwdvg001.cms.usa.net [165.212.8.11] by uadvg132.cms.usa.net via mtad (CM.1201.1.04A) with ESMTP id 092gDaXMn0299M32; Mon, 01 Apr 2002 23:38:39 GMT Message-ID: <20020401234040.9293.qmail@uwdvg001.cms.usa.net> Received: from 129.7.248.144 [129.7.248.144] by uwdvg001.cms.usa.net (USANET web-mailer CM.1201.3.01A); Mon, 01 Apr 2002 23:40:40 -0000 Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 17:40:40 -0600 From: shreenivasa H V To: Subject: Maximum scheduling priority X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (CM.1201.3.01A) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, When a process is sleeping off the run-queue waiting on an event, its dyn= amic priority increases due to its non-usage of the CPU. What is the maximum, = in terms of time, it can accumulate due to such sleeps? I mean, if a process= is not using the CPU for a while, its priority increases and this results in= , it getting some bonus execution time. I wanted to know what is the maximum l= imit on this accumulated time. Shreenivasa. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message