On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 07:14:47PM +0900, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote on Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 09:23:37AM +0000:
> > > The consequence of that is it takes much longer to complete because the
> > > clock is down: what previously normally took ~55s real for ~27s of CPU
> > > time now takes 7m10 for 85s of CPU time -- but honestly I don't care how
> > > long this takes if it's not noticeable, this is perfect. Thanks again!
> > 
> > That's a really long time… 55/27 s seems fairly standard, e.g. I get 43/22 s
> > with a 256 GB SATA disk. But 440/85 s is quite a bit worse.
> 
> I really don't think it matters: this is a background job.

It matters in the sense that the total energy consumption will be higher.
I don't think we should try to work around hardware issues at the
level of individual programs trying to influence decisions. This can
never work, except as a local hack for some issue.

> > > I would have suggested also adding Nice=5 or something but I don't think
> > > it's required with this.
> >
> > I think that with IOSchedulingClass=idle, niceness doesn't matter anymore.
> 
> Hmm, I'm not sure what makes you think that.

Brainfart, I was thinking about CPUSchedulingPolicy=. I think it would
make sense to set CPUSchedulingPolicy=batch.

Zbyszek
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