Messages in this thread |  | | From | "LA Walsh" <> | Subject | Weightless process class | Date | Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:04:01 -0700 |
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I had another thought regarding resource scheduling -- has the idea of a "weightless" process been brought up? Weightless means it doesn't count toward 'load' and the class strictly has lowest priority in the system and gets *no* CPU unless there are "idle" cycles. So even a process niced to -19 could CPU starve a weightless process.
Perhaps if memory was needed, the paging code would page out weightless processes first... etc?...
?? -linda
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