Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:12:02 +0200 (CEST) | From | Marco Colombo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
[...] > They are niced because the user thinks them a bit less > important.
Please don't, this assumption is quite wrong. I use nice just to be 'nice' to other users. I can run my *important* CPU hog simulation nice +10 in order to let other people get more CPU when the need it. But if you put the logic "niced == not important" somewhere into the kernel, nobody will use nice anymore. I'd rather give a bonus to niced processes.
I agree this is a small issue, the OOM killer job isn't "nice" at all anyway. B-) (at OOM time, I'd not even look at the nice of a process at all. But my point here is that you do, and you take it as an hint for process importance as percieved by the user that run it, and I believe it's just wrong guessing).
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