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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: root <r6144@263.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make highly niced processes run only when idle
Date: 07 Dec 2001 23:39:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1007786393.12110.4.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15377.39251.359055.873680@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <15377.39251.359055.873680@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 23:38, root wrote:
> This patch makes a process with nice values >= 20 (according to
> setpriority(2)) completely stop when there are other runnable
> processes with smaller nice values.
> Try run something with `nice -n 30' (which `setpriority' to 20)

What do you think will happen when an "idle" task holds a resource or is
otherwise a producer for something a higher priority, running, task
needs?

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-08  4:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-08  4:38 [PATCH] Make highly niced processes run only when idle root
2001-12-08  4:39 ` Robert Love [this message]
2001-12-09 22:31   ` Anthony DeRobertis
2001-12-09 23:05     ` Robert Love
2001-12-09 23:16       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-09 23:21         ` Robert Love
2001-12-09 23:46           ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-10  0:30             ` Robert Love
2001-12-10  2:46               ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-10 12:25                 ` Niteshadow
2001-12-11  1:35               ` Steve Bergman
2001-12-19 23:49           ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-11  1:36       ` Ton Hospel
2001-12-11  1:54         ` Robert Love
2001-12-13 21:42           ` Pavel Machek

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