Messages in this thread | | | From | fvw <> | Subject | Re: low priority soft RT? | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:15:33 +0200 |
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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, cd_smith@ou.edu wrote: > Anyone thought about allowing soft RT (SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR) tasks with > negative priorities? These would only be executed if no other tasks of > any type are there. Giving a normal Linux task a niceness value won't do > this, as the task will still get some CPU time. > > I was just thinking back to past projects, and about a year ago I wished I > had something like this to do background housekeeping tasks for a > distributed application I was writing -- I wanted to do them if possible > on a free system, and only schedule time on some system if they didn't get > scheduled anyway. > > Since I'm sure this isn't a new idea, any good reasons not to allow this? > (surely there can't be security implications, right?) I'm not really > interested in doing it myself right now, but I might in the future if > there aren't good reasons otherwise.
I for one would be very glad to see such a thing, especially for the seti/GIMPS/distributed.net clients. Though it would be good for some of those less important cron-tab jobs aswell.... --
Frank v Waveren fvw@chello.nl ICQ# 10074100
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