Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:34:55 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: low priority soft RT? |
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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Chris, I worked on a Unix system a long time ago ('86), and there > they defined "nice 19" to be "when nobody else wants the CPU". > That was a VERY handy system. For example: rc5des would not > consume the 3-5% of the CPU of my system when I'm actually doing > something CPUbound.
I used to (and will again if there's enough demand) maintain a SCHED_IDLE patch for the Linux kernel, but nowadays I use loadwatch(1) myself and it works good enough for me...
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