Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:54:50 -0600 | | From | "Chris Friesen" <> | | Subject | Re: SMP Affinity and nice |
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Rich Paredes wrote:
> So since cpumax5 has a lower nice value and thus a higher priority (25 in > this case), shouldn't it be given it's own cpu. If I give cpumax5 a nice > value of -20, it does start using it's own cpu. > > My explanation would be that since the scheduler tries to limit cpu > affinity, the nice value of 0 isn't enough to get the scheduler to move > this process to another processors run queue. I could be totally wrong > here though.
I think you are correct. The load balancer doesn't think that this is enough of an imbalance to go through the effort of swapping two processes around.
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