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Date:      Fri, 9 Dec 2011 20:10:17 -0500
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgmpuX9rPmZO0H-tSygrnPr-u0T4fZxiyGPu-vSdReKF1g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 6:03 AM, George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> wrote:
> dnetc is an open-source program from http://www.distributed.net/.  It
> tries a brute-force approach to cracking RC4 puzzles and also computes
> optimal Golomb rulers.  It starts up one process per CPU and runs at
> nice 20 and is, for all intents and purposes, 100% compute bound.

Try idprio as well (atm it requires root to use though).

nice only means "play nice". idprio means "only run when nothing else
wants to run".

-- 
Eitan Adler



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