hello omar, your question isn't clear, at least for me...
you see any decent operating system supports assigning priorities for processes. simply put higher priority processes get more access to the CPU and vice versa, so in fact what renice does is change the priority of that process not the "Priority Algorithm". the actual scheduler algorithm is predetermined at kernel compile time, AFAIK you can't change scheduling algorithms on the run. fyi the latest linux scheduler is called CFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Completely_Fair_Scheduler which is included in the latest kernels. apparently its a big step, especially for desktop machines. do ask if you have more questions.. aram :) --- Omar The Pythoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Al-salamu Alaikom Wr Allah Wb. > > I've been viewing a Unix commands cheat sheet on one > of those websites > out there. > > It contained almost all the Unix commands. > > And, there was this command to control the process > priority: > > " renice -5 542 " //The numbers are imaginary. > > And I started wondering, does this mean that Unix > supports the > Priority Algorithm for controlling the processes in > the CPU?? > > Any answers, please..? > > Thanks a lot. :) > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jolug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
