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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> at least put a whole bunch of cpu_relax() in that loop, or your cpu
> will.. get hot. Would also be nice if cpufreq had a "run this one slow"
> option.... 
The "conservative" and "ondemand" governors have an "ignore niced 
processes" setting, which looks like it would help here.

    J