Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:10:54 +1100 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: cross-cpu balancing with the new scheduler |
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> eatcpu is a simple cpu hog ("for(;;);"). Dual CPU i386. > > $nice -19 ./eatcpu&; > <wait> > $nice -19 ./eatcpu&; > <wait> > $./eatcpu&. > > IMHO it should be > * both niced process run on one cpu. > * the non-niced process runs with a 100% timeslice. > > But it's the other way around: > One niced process runs with 100%. The non-niced process with 50%, and > the second niced process with 50%.
Rusty and I were talking about this recently. Would it make sense for the load balancer to use a weighted queue length (sum up all priorities in the queue?) instead of just balancing the queue length?
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