Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-17T20:09:35Z

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:07:49AM -0400, James Bruce wrote:
> Nonlinear is a must IMO. I would suggest X = exp(ln(10)/10) ~= 1.2589
> That value has the property that a nice=10 task gets 1/10th the cpu of a
> nice=0 task, and a nice=20 task gets 1/100 of nice=0. I think that
> would be fairly easy to explain to admins and users so that they can
> know what to expect from nicing tasks.
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Lots of good ideas here. I'll follow them.

-- wli