Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:45:13 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Schedule idle |
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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, David Feuer wrote:
> Why is this better than nice-19?
Because: - nice19 gets 5% of CPU - eats the full amount of memory and/or I/O such a program needs - multiple nice19 processes have a big impact on system performance, 200+ idle processes hardly have any impact on responsiveness (I tried it with 230 idle processes)
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