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    SubjectRe: (ondemand) CPU governor regression between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24
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    At Sunday 27 January 2008 Mike Galbraith wrote :
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    > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 13:39 +0100, Toralf Förster wrote:
    > > Ough, does this mean that for a multi-user scenario of 2 non-root users "A" and
    > > "B" each running exactly 1 process with nice level 0 and 19 rerspectively
    > > that both share ~50% of the CPU *and furthermore* that that user "B" does never
    > > ever have a chance to be nice to user "A" although his process should really
    > > use only those CPU cycles not eated by any other user ?
    >
    > Yes. If you want one task group to receive less cpu cycles, you have to
    > 'nice' that task group by reducing it's share.

    > I think it's better to just disable fair group scheduling if it doesn't
    > suit your needs. It's not going to be everyone's cup of tea.

    Yes, disabling this kernel option is much better for me as a notebook user.

    BTW t I've one more question related to this topic:

    Is it correct that within the scenario described above user "A" never gets more
    than 50% of the CPU as soon as user "B" is logged into the system (because of
    the login process itself) ?

    > -Mike
    >



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