Messages in this thread | | | From | (Marc Lehmann) | Subject | Re: process priorities | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:50:31 +0200 (CEST) |
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>I was thinking of nice-19 process from one user (running as "background" >or real batch job using e.g. NQS) which shouldn't need to compete at all with >my "idle sucking" jobs like rc5 (which would suck 50% or real usefull >nice-19 work without this patch...)
I always liked that SGI's could easily send jobs into real background.. their realtime priorities included neagtive numbers which meant that these processes have LOWER prioritires than even SCHED_OTHER jobs.
This way you could run programs for week and be sure that at daytime people could work without problems... we always had to stop our processes on linux machines during the day..
Something like that should definitely go into the kernel..
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