Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 1997 15:59:16 -0600 (CST) | From | Adam Mckee <> | Subject | Re: process priorities |
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I am currently working on QNX-style scheduling for Linux 2.0.x that allows much improved interactive performance under heavy CPU load. I expect to release this patch this weekend sometime. I don't have SMP, so I'll be looking forward to hearing how well (or *if*) it work with SMP.
See:
http://osiris.cpc.wmin.ac.uk/~drotos/qnx/microkernel/schedul.html
-- Adam
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> > >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.. > > -----==- > ----==-- _ > ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann > --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / mlehmann@hildesheim.sgh-net.de > -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ pcg@goof.com > The choice of a GNU generation >
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