Chuck Shirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure I like that much. I have processes that run at niceness > of 19, but that I want to use all available (otherwise idle) cpu time > it seems to me that this new niceness scheme would make the process only > have access to one percent of processor time. I use the system for day > to day things, but most of the timeslices are idle, so I do some analysis > work in the background, to keep the computer from getting bored. ;^)
I think the patch doesn't make the processor idle not used, just that when two processors want 100% of CPU (load of 2), the nice'd to 19 gets only 1%. Of course when the CPU is free, a nice'd process can get it up to 100%. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
