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On 06/09/14 15:04, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> [...]
> If you were running dnetc, your complaint is that one processor
> hog wasn't able to hog the processor as much as another processor
> hog?  If the numbers above are to be believed, _ULE is doing a
> better job than _4BSD since it more evenly shared the processor
> w/ the other processor hog, in that they both got ~50% of the
> cpu...  If this is the case, then you need to use nice w/ buildworld
> to give it higher priority...
> [...]

dnetc runs at nice 20 and is essentially 100% compute bound.  I'm
more than happy for buildworld/buildkernel to get every cycle it
can when it emerges from an I/O wait.                   -- George