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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]
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* Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:

> With a heavily reniced X (perfectly fine), that should indeed solve my 
> daily usage pattern nicely (always need godmode for shells, but not 
> for mozilla and ilk. 50/50 split automatic without renice of entire 
> gui)

how about the first-approximation solution i suggested in the previous 
mail: to add a per UID default nice level? (With this default defaulting 
to '-10' for all root-owned processes, and defaulting to '0' for 
everything else.) That would solve most of the current CFS regressions 
at hand.

	Ingo