Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 13:49:11 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic tasks are not nice Message-ID: <3360.1623703751@segfault.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <20210614190918.165D610C902F@ary.qy>
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In message <20210614190918.165D610C902F@ary.qy>, you wrote: >It appears that Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> said: >>Shouldn't all these sorts of background taks be nice'd? > >Maybe. My not very new server has 12 CPUs (six on each chip) so there >is always an available CPU so the speed limit is the disk, not the >processor. Nice only affects CPU scheduling. Hummm... OK. But on the other hand, if a given process is starved of CPU, then it will naturally be less able to suck up all of the available actuator movements of the spinning rust disks that I am still cheap enough to own, yes? Regards, rfg
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