Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 18 Mar 2000 10:26:32 -0500 | | From | "DeRobertis" <> | | Subject | Re: Some questions about linux kernel. |
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At 10:28 AM -0400 on 3/16/00, Horst von Brand wrote:
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>Note the nice(1) man page, which traditionally says something like: "Bugs: >Nobody uses it" > >In any case, your VM priorities _must_ be tied to niceness, it makes no >sense to have a high-level VM priority on a process that never gets to >run. And, AFAIU this is what Rik's patch does on itself...
This probably about covers it. There may be some times when nice tasks are very important, but I can't think of any.
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