Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 20:32:25 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does task scheduler work correctly? (... nice bug fix) Message-ID: <39485.981052345@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 2001 19:23:04 %2B0100." <20010201192304.A54677@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>
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On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 19:23:04 +0100, Cejka Rudolf wrote: > After reading commit logs, I understand that: > > * Scheduling in -current should not cause locks, but nice is again broken. > * Scheduling in -stable can cause locks (?!?), but nice works perfectly. > > I could not believe that my understandings are correct. Please, could > anybody explain to me the real scheduler status? What I remember of the discussions that surrounded this one, your summary is correct. The only thing is that nice isn't so much _broken_ as it just isn't doing what you'd expect it to. :-) I don't think any of the FreeBSD manual pages suggest that nice 20 processes aren't supposed to get _any_ CPU time. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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