Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Make highly niced processes run only when idle | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 07 Dec 2001 23:39:53 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 23:38, root wrote: > This patch makes a process with nice values >= 20 (according to > setpriority(2)) completely stop when there are other runnable > processes with smaller nice values. > Try run something with `nice -n 30' (which `setpriority' to 20)
What do you think will happen when an "idle" task holds a resource or is otherwise a producer for something a higher priority, running, task needs?
Robert Love
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