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* Nice 19 process still gets some CPU
@ 2004-06-28 15:14 Timothy Miller
  2004-06-28 15:04 ` Con Kolivas
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From: Timothy Miller @ 2004-06-28 15:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Kernel Mailing List

Given how much I've read here about schedulers, I should probably be 
able to answer this question myself, but I just thought I might talk to 
the experts.

I'm running SETI@Home, and it has a nice value of 19.  Everything else, 
for the most part, is at zero.

I'm running kernel gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r6 (I believe).

When I'm not running SETI@Home, compiler threads (emerge of a package, 
kernel compile, etc.) get 100% CPU.  When I AM running SETI@Home, 
SETI@Home still manages to get between 5% and 10% CPU.

I would expect that nice 0 processes should get SO MUCH more than nice 
19 processes that the nice 19 process would practically starve (and in 
the case of a nice 19 process, I think starvation by nice 0 processes is 
just fine), but it looks like it's not starving.

Why is that?

Thanks.


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2004-06-28 15:14 Nice 19 process still gets some CPU Timothy Miller
2004-06-28 15:04 ` Con Kolivas
2004-06-28 15:41   ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-28 15:24     ` Con Kolivas
2004-06-28 15:42       ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-28 15:47         ` Con Kolivas
2004-06-28 15:48       ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2004-06-28 15:51         ` Con Kolivas
2004-06-28 16:17     ` Chris Friesen
2004-06-28 16:23       ` Michael Buesch
2004-06-28 16:36         ` Chris Friesen
2004-06-28 21:15         ` Con Kolivas
2004-06-29 16:56   ` Kurt Garloff
2004-06-28 23:38 ` Peter Williams
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