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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:53:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de>
Cc:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: SCHED_ULE and nice still ignored
Message-ID:  <20040131134854.A18293@light.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <200401312231.59784@harrymail>
References:  <200401312146.32847@harrymail> <20040131212419.GA76513@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200401312231.59784@harrymail>

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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:

...
> If I start a process with nice 15 (like seti) it shouldn't slow down my
> machine by exponetial factors.
> It should take cycles which are almost unused and not block regular processes
> (like make)
...

  Isn't "idprio" the best way of scheduling a process to run when the
system is otherwise idle?  Can you try with idprio?

  From what I know of "nice", it should reduces the processes scheduling
priority.  There is no definition in the nice manpage on the exact
definition of reduced priority means.

Tom



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