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Date:      Fri, 06 Mar 1998 16:32:12 +0100
From:      Hrvoje Husic <H.Husic@Uni-Koeln.DE>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bug in the process-scheduler & niceness of 20?
Message-ID:  <Version.32.19980306163039.00f3c9d0@mail.rrz.uni-koeln.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305220304.24994M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
References:  <Version.32.19980304144320.00f45e10@mail.rrz.uni-koeln.de>

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At 22:06 05.03.98 -0800, Doug White wrote:

>Not entirely.  If you want to set idle priority, run `idprio -203'.  With
>niceness 20, the application will not be scheduled often, but will be
>scheduled.  In idle priority, it will only be scheduled if there are no
>ready processes to schedule, eg the system is idle.

Well, it still should not get the same CPU-cycles a gzip without niceness
gets. The niceness does not affect the scheduling at all.

>My rc564 (my rc5des didn't die like everyone else's) is chugging along
>fine.

Mine is chugging fine as well, but it should not do so with other processes
requiering CPU-time.

-- 
Hrvoje Husic <H.Husic@Uni-Koeln.DE>


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