From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 11 20:01:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA13027 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 20:01:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA12880 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 20:00:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01862; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 22:55:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199712120355.WAA01862@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Process scheduling: nice does not work ??? In-Reply-To: <199712120252.TAA07810@usr02.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Dec 12, 97 02:52:18 am" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 22:55:45 -0500 (EST) Cc: jonny@coppe.ufrj.br, tlambert@primenet.com, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert said: > > It's for setting your priority to less than the default of 0 so that you > don't bother interactive users with your compute intensive tasks (in > fact, there used to be code in the BSD scheduler to whomp your priority > way down when it determined that your process was non-interactive; I > have no idea when it went away, but it did). > That "whomp" code was explicitly removed. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com