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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:26:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
To:        Tom <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SCHED_ULE and nice still ignored
Message-ID:  <20040131175609.T10185@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040131134854.A18293@light.sdf.com>
References:  <200401312146.32847@harrymail> <20040131212419.GA76513@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200401312231.59784@harrymail> <20040131134854.A18293@light.sdf.com>

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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Tom wrote:

>   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.

"Reduced priority" is subjective.  Different schedulers are free to
more-or-less do whatever they want behind the scenes with the nice value.
The expected behavior is of course the preempting of the process that has
a higher nice value by a gradually stepped amount.

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >



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