Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Nov 1997 20:24:30 +0100 | From | Harald Koenig <> | Subject | Re: Task priorities... lower than low? |
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On Nov 27, Chris Evans wrote:
> There's a neat little patch floating around to implement a new nice level; > one that means a process only runs if _no other processes_ want to be > running. > > A nice useful, and unlikely to introduce bugs, patch for 2.2, no?
YES PLEASE! but then, well, I'm a bit biased as I needed this patch and Ingo Molnar made this wonderfull small hack for us/me...
and as 2.2.0 probably will take quite some more time to get out of the door, I still would like to see this in 2.0.33+ (I know: feature freeze:( as this is a really nice and usefull tool in production environments which need nice level for more usefull things than (still usefull) idle tasks...
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