Re: [test-PATCH] Re: [QUESTION] 2.4.x nice level

Pozsar Balazs
2001-04-12T22:52:14Z

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:53:16PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > OK, here it is. It's nothing like montavista's singing-dancing
> > scheduler patch that does all, just a really minimal change that
> > should stretch the nice levels to yield the following CPU usage:
> >
> > Nice 0 5 10 15 19
> > %CPU 100 56 25 6 1
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE SWAP RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 980 riel 17 0 296 0 296 240 R 54.1 0.5 54:19 loop
> 1005 riel 16 5 296 0 296 240 R N 27.0 0.5 0:34 loop
> 1006 riel 17 10 296 0 296 240 R N 13.5 0.5 0:16 loop
> 1007 riel 18 15 296 0 296 240 R N 4.5 0.5 0:05 loop
> 987 riel 20 19 296 0 296 240 R N 0.4 0.5 0:25 loop

How does this scale to negative nice levels? Afaik it should, in some way.
(I don't mean that it's wrong in this state, i'm just asking).

regards,
Balazs.